our food made in CHINA !

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:07 pm

buying apples from o'seas is a little ridiculus I think -
and I prefer home grown Garlic - no geiger counter noises on my dinner table please

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:51 am

I missed the today tonight on Monday story of frozen veggies shipped from China to our shores via NZ. Think they got NZ birth certificate. The replay link of the story has been removed from where I looked so not got facks straight, or have I?

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:20 am

But, I got to see the story on fruit juices on our shelves shown a week or two later.
Some of those portrayed to be in the know, claim that all of our juices on the shelf - non refrigerated will contain imported ingredients. Best chance to be buying local content is fruit juices from the refrigerated sections of our supply stores.

The main concern of the article was that some sources may not adhere to same standards and contain some 'unnecessary' chemicals not natural to the product.

LIFTED · Post by **LIFTED** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:46 pm

Alex wrote:all the purple garlic in the big shops(coles, woolys, IGA) at the moment is from Spain

refusing to buy it, all i want is good aussie purple garlic!

the shitty white garlic comes from china. Feck that.

alex

Alex I now grow my own Aussie garlic It's easy. Buy some organic garlic, put it in the fridge for a couple of weeks(tricks it into thinking it had a winter) then just poke individual cloves in the ground.
I usually plant in April and pull it up in January
one clove turns into a whole bulb of cloves.
Early this year I bought Giant organic purple garlic from "Peaches" in Fremantle

Post by **Alex** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:55 pm

Ahh yes, I was in the iga next door to peaches a fortnight ago. They had aussie garlic for $60 a kilo

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NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:59 pm

steptoe wrote: The main concern of the article was that some sources may not adhere to same standards and contain some 'unnecessary' chemicals not natural to the product.

the "unnecessary", or more "unwanted", includes POO...HUMAN POO!

Yes some of these countries use HUMAN poo as well as chook poo etc for fertilizer.

I have a very sensitive friend who was really enjoying the chinese "ya pears" till i told her bout the fertilizers...she was very unhappy! I dont think she even looked at another piece of fruit for a week...& shes a vegetarian lol

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:51 pm

nachaluva wrote:the "unnecessary", or more "unwanted", includes POO...HUMAN POO!

Yes some of these countries use HUMAN poo as well as chook poo etc for fertilizer.

I have a very sensitive friend who was really enjoying the chinese "ya pears" till i told her bout the fertilizers...she was very unhappy! I dont think she even looked at another piece of fruit for a week...& shes a vegetarian lol

I suppose telling her that all the bad stuff from human waste is left in the ground and has nothing to do with the fruit would be little comfort

mud_king91 · Post by **mud_king91** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:33 pm

i use horse when i actually plant something it makes it grow so much better

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:56 pm

Silverbullet wrote:I suppose telling her that all the bad stuff from human waste is left in the ground and has nothing to do with the fruit would be little comfort

Hahaha no not really lol

mud_king91 wrote:i use horse when i actually plant something it makes it grow so much better

Poor horse hahaha lol

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:41 pm

a favourite name of , well , lets call it a pop paddle, come in ice water confectionery form as well as the old favourite 70% milk ones. I was shouted my last i.w.c. p.p. today - made in China. Milk ones still made here I hope due to milk content laws