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- jezkah, on 10/11/2007, -19/+217"Chikity China the Chinese chicken / Have a drumstick and your brain stops ticking" Who knew the Barenaked Ladies were prophetic?
*prepares for massive digg down* - AntBing, on 10/11/2007, -14/+113Thats funny since more than 8% of Americans can't even read.
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -8/+98New York City??!!!
- donte, on 10/11/2007, -22/+988% of people must have important things to worry about, I guess.
- rick2k, on 10/11/2007, -13/+77Whats the point... they wouldn't know any of the country's anyway....
I couldn't resist it ;) - AmishRefugee, on 10/11/2007, -5/+68I always find it funny when someone incorrectly predicts being dugg down
- RobertS44, on 10/11/2007, -8/+53And atleast a list of countries where the ingredients came from too aswell.
- mjaleo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+42The point is to inform the buyer of the country so that if they have a preference they can purchase accordingly. Considering the head of the Chinese FDA equivalent was just executed by his own government, I'd say even they think there is a problem.
If there are two brands of the same product, and one is $0.50 cheaper, but made in China, it may also persuade people to purchase the American made item. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -10/+42French Fries don't come from France, so stop worrying.
- HalfBurntToast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29But than that ruins the surprise! =(
- revenge7, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33It doesn't. Some people are just paranoid.
- Samji, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30We pretty much have that in the EU just now.
- fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -10/+34Whats the point you'll most likely see "Made in China"
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I look forward to see what the Mexican Council of Food has to say about my 33 cent plankton.
- HPCELarry, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26What? We have a 99% literacy rate https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
- eric0213, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24Great, another !@#$% sticker I won't be able to peel off my %$#@! apple.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Imagine something simple, like Campbell's Chicken soup. The noodles could come from China, the Chicken could come from Argentina, the water could come from the packing plant in the USA, the salt could be from Israel, and the carrots from Canada, and the chemical additives could be from India. Not to mention, the supplier of any of these ingredients could change monthly, in our global economy. So, would the label say "made in the USA from ingredients purchased from China, etc" and would that label have to change every time they switched suppliers? Perhaps it could be updated on a website? The cost and practicalities here seem mind blowing to me, if this is going to be accurate, as opposed to a rule that says "if 50% or more of the products ingredients come from the US, it can be labeled as made in the USA."
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+24farmers have been cross mating plants for thousands of years, its amazing that people are paranoid about it now that its being done in a lab. Its ignorance run amok.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Git tha' rope
- c1utch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14This Is my first post, but I figured I'd contribute
It isn't an issue for me if something is made abroad in terms of reliability or jobs or outsourcing. For me, it means the oil used to ship that piece of fruit from Mexico or even further
The further from home something was grown, the more money, oil, and other non-renewable resources it took to get it there.
To go overseas, it takes time, which means more packaging and or chemicals to keep thing fresh.
Theres really no reason this information shouldn't be on every piece of food - MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1873.8725% of statistics are made up on the spot.
- h4rdcor3, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18Walmart is really pushing against this because almost none of their meat/produce is grown in the United States. Personally if I'm going to be eating beef, i want it to be corn fed American beef
mmmm.... off to lunch! - paulmike3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14I'll digg you down for underestimating the number of people who get jokes without needing a reply to point it out.
- Stradenko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Picante sauce....
- Brian48216, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15wrong....it's salsa.
- TheDHC, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15stop making up statistics
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Along with laws about how straight bananas have to be and, i swear this is true, renaming yoghurt to "mild alternate culture heat-treated fermented milk"
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13They should have just renamed it to "Yogurt"
- theholycow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14If you're going to pick on people for being stupid, try not to make grammar mistakes like "country's" (which should have been "countries").
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Disease. You wouldn't want poultry from China at the moment.
Some people also like the option to be able to boycott a country based on practices. - noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14You don't think the source of your food is important? Wouldn't you like to know if your food is coming froma country that has had some disease problems (China).
This is already done on seafood for this very reason. - Dsn989, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18What does it matter if it's genetically modified?
- jcounterman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12If I cross-pollinate two different kinds of tomatoes, the resulting plant is technically genetically modified. That means almost all of our food is genetically modified, as plants and animals have been cross-bred for multiple reasons for thousands of years. The problem with labeling food GM is that the definition of GM is just too wide.
- Judicata, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Meh. That doesn't show people actually care that much. Sure, I wouldn't mind knowing, but I doubt I would even pay attention if it was on the label. People just have a knee-jerk response to providing more information on things rather than less.
Ask: "Would you like a label showing what country your food came from?" Who is going to say no? (well, 8% of people I guess) - bdbr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+81000 people out of 300 million Americans - each of you only had a 0.00033% chance of getting called...and you're surprised that your entire circle of family and friends didn't get called?
The more reasonable question might be whether the sample is representative of the population as a whole. - NtrmDscrptr, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I'd prefer information on GM food, and food made with animal products.
- VeganG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9It would be cheapest for people to just make their own salsa. It's about as easy to make as a pb&j sandwich. Plus, fresh salsa is loads better than the jarred stuff, which has to be cooked, and ends up like some kind of slop. Salsa's not supposed to be cooked.
- nullcodes, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13People still buy Chinese imports en masse. Why would labeling food make any difference? Go ahead though label away. A better system would be increased testing of food for contamination and independent inspection/certification of farms. Instead of some label saying "Made in China" I'd rather see a (voluntary) label on food that says it came from an periodically inspected farm and that the food was randomly sampled and inspected. This is the type of thing I would like to see on goods as well (factory conditions independently verified periodically).
- CeeJayDK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Better link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
There is even a map of the world coloured by literacy rate.
I know picking on American can be fun , but it's isn't justified in this case. - f0dder, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Food from India and Mexico have been stopped more times than China Still think it's a good thing to have labeled. But just clearing up misconceptions.. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/business/12imports.html?ex=1341892800&en=d65c4c11dabbd725&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
- Speed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Usually those tiny stickers already say where the "%$#@!" apple comes from (you may as well just say ***** apple).
- pintomp3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9they should do both. given the consumer the info and let them decide.
- TargetBoy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I was just thinking about how nice this would be this morning. Should be extended to pet food as well.
- brister, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7If the food can be grown in North America then we shouldn't be importing it from China. I can't understand why food here uses wheat from China? Don't we have enough already? And just to save a couple cents? I think people would be happy to pay an extra few cents if they knew it was home grown.
- 3magine, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10i think it's a good idea. I'd much rather consume food made in Europe or Canada, as opposed to that made in the U.S. I'm pretty good sans the steroids.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I always wondered why in the world you would pay to have your salsa manufactured in NYC, it's not exactly the cheapest real estate for product manufacturing. I can see why you'd have a marketing office there but wouldn't it be cheaper to make your salsa in, you know, Mexico?
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7bearnaked? six inches above you it's spelled right in the thread you're responding to.
- AxeSwinger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7No actually they are usually modified for shelf live, pest and cold resistance and hardiness in shipping. Nutritional enhancements seems to be the least reason to modify a crop because theoretically the food is already full of nutrients. Of course that was before that we found out that gm foods have less nutrients than conventionally grown crops.
- DangerMouse9, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10They're FREEDOM FRIES get it right... douche.
- noahhoward, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Having worked in a Wal-Mart meat department I can tell you that isn't true. All Wal-Marts will have a local source. At the one I worked at our poultry, for example came from Claxton farms locally and Tyson. Tyson may source internationally but there are a lot of Tyson farms in the US as well.
The beef in many cases comes from Nebraska. -
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