Huh. I guess beggars CAN be choosers.
Not just turn down, but outright throw away without opening.
Even people down on their luck have standards…and Chinese peas apparently crosses a line.
All we are saying, is give peas a chance.
Where’s the “Like” button when you need it?
StG
Do you have any idea how much food the US produces?
It’s massive, we are in absolutely zero current danger of not producing enough to meet our needs.
Your cite is a little old. I canned be sure it’s still relevant. Do you have any fresh Greenpeace?
The xenophobia is great in this one.
Then why are we importing green peas from the other side of the world?
Quality control is the responsibility of the people who import and distribute and put their name on the label – who in this case, are Americans. In the case of my Chinese mackerel, that’s Bublebee Foods LLC, San Diego CA.
Lorene doesn’t trust peas from China. I don’t know how she feels about peas from other countries but I have a feeling we’ll never have World Peas.
Because canned peas are so foul that anyone producing them in the USA would be canned.
Because even with the shipping it’s cheaper. If you can ship canned peas from China and do it for a few nickels less than those produced in the USA you’ll find a market.
Some people are primarily concerned about price, but the idea that the US is not capable of producing a sufficient amount of food is preposterous.
It’s not xenophobia - it’s the truth. The Chinese have notoriously slipshod quality control and export shit that kills. That is a fact.
Has there been a documented case of a death from imported food from China? Otherwise it’s not a fact.
As someone who knows people who have their products manufactured in China, and who (like you, probably) uses very high quality Chinese made goods every day, I think this statement is dubious. A more accurate statement is that Chinese quality control is as good or as poor as their customers demand.
There’s an Asian grocery store I frequent, specifically because they import foods from Asia that I can’t find anywhere locally. My last visit, I bought garam masala, kimchi, tamarind paste, and both Japanese and Chinese eggplant. The eggplants may have been produced locally but the garam masala had been produced in India, the tamarind paste was made in Thailand, and the kimchi was from Korea. It never occurred to me to question the safety of the foods they import.
What a wasteful way to distribute food. You can’t go through the bag at the food pantry and leave what you don’t want? I’ll bet half the food in the mystery bags gets tossed.
Not to mention all the pets they killed with contaminated pet food.