I got a brown bag from the FoodPantry. Among other things there was a can of Green Peas. On the back of the can is “Made in China” I’m throwing them out. I can’t weed out everything grown/made/ in China,but I do my best. I believe they are trying to poison us… They’ve poisoned thousands of our pets,millions of their own children.
Am I crazy? Am I prudent? Am I something else…
You’re throwing away free food from a Food Pantry? I vote for “something else.”
If you got it from a Food Pantry, and don’t want to eat it, you should bring it back to the Food Pantry. You may have the luxury of rejecting food that could possibly meet your imagined condition of potentially being poison, but I’m sure there are plenty of people grateful to have that.
Ah - Thank you… I’ll do that… My blood pressure is so high my ears are ringing… See,this pushes all my buttons. Our farms and ranches are being bulldozed, paved and made into ugly housing "developments. Soon the US will not be able to feed ourselves. Our supply lines are too long and unstable…
I vote “Give it back,” with an explanation about why. We are buying peas from China? Good Grief.
I, too, try not to buy Chinese imports, especially not food items. They may not be *trying *to poison us, but I think quality control is not a high priority there.
“I’m not willing to risk being poisoned but I’ll let someone else take their chances.”
Better to throw it out but still let the Food Bank know why.
What chances are they taking? Not everyone has an irrational fear that a can of food from China has anything other than green peaness in it.
I don’t care what color the peaness is, I ain’t eating it.
I wouldn’t open that can, lest peaness ensues.
give it back for someone to eat.
i knew someone would would eat canned peas cold. now that’s just plain sick.
That’s not about imported food from China, but what the Chinese are doing to themselves. Nor is it about China intentionally poisoning us, which was alluded to in the OP. The US still has inspections of the food coming across our borders–the fear of being poisoned by Chinese food is irrational.
A Decade of Dangerous Food Imports from China (PDF)
Food Imports from China Under Scrutiny for Fraud and Lack of Inspection
Why Americans Should Worry About China’s Food Safety Problems
I think the OP is being irrational and I won’t eat anything imported from China. The two positions aren’t mutually exclusive. The US isn’t going to lose the ability to feed itself any time soon - we produce too much. Imports are just cheaper sometimes. But Chinese production is way too slipshod and corrupt for my tastes. I’ll pay more for my food rather than take a chance on any Chinese food product, even for my pets.
Eating canned peas is irrational, regardless of where they originated. Fresh peas – yummy. Frozen peas – good. Canned peas – revolting.
I agree with the previous advice: If you cannot, for whatever reason, use a commodity that has been graciously donated to you, give it back. The next recipient might be hungry enough to take the minuscule chance that s/he’ll be poisoned by a can of peas.
Just to address this point: The US is a net exporter of food. The latest reliable numbers I found indicate that, in 2012, “we” imported $110 billion, and exported $133 billion in food. Yes, we import more and more each year; but that’s largely a product of increasing demand for exotic foods or non-seasonal foods. I come from a long line of farmers, and many of my family took up the family business. I understand that small- and medium-sized family farms are under increasing economic pressure (although there are a great many publicly-funded subsidies that help keep them in business.) But just because Uncle Joe lost the family farm in 1982 doesn’t mean that US agribusiness as a whole is failing.
Goober peas – goodness, how delicious.
Goober Peas is Peanuts
Sorry, no. Malthusians have NEVER been right, and they’re not about to start now.
Yes. The Central Committee decided that it wants to poison the same people to whom it’s trying to sell stuff. Does that sound rational to you?
BTW, if you can afford to turn down free food, why are you going to a food pantry at all?