Made in China- do we care?

[kjay]

This doesn't apply to biking clothes, but recently my hubby and I decided to no longer buy stuff made in China. Our coffeemaker recently went kaput, so we spent about four hours looking for one not made in China. Finally, one of the sales gals told me her sister found one on the Internet, a handmade coffeemaker made in Holland. Where there's a will there's a way, so they say.

[crazycanuck]

As far as I know...We can't purchase any overseas honey @ supermarkets in Aust. nor can we recieve any from overseas...

[Tuckervill]

I was curious and out of honey today, so I checked all the bottles in Wal-Mart, and every one of them had a state of origin on them--mostly Texas and Georgia. Produce of USA, too. There was even a bottle of "sugar free imitation honey". I can't imagine what it is made of. I didn't look. lol.

(By the way, WM is the only national or "brand name" grocery in my area. A small regional chain has bought out the IGA and is moving in. My brother happens to run all the bakeries for the chain and it appears someone over there finally heard my constant complaining about nothing but WM in my town!)

Karen

[Trek420]

(By the way, WM is the only national or "brand name" grocery in my area. A small regional chain has bought out the IGA and is moving in. My brother happens to run all the bakeries for the chain and it appears someone over there finally heard my constant complaining about nothing but WM in my town!)

Karen

There's a large'ish chain a few blocks from my house but we just found it depressing somehow. It's not just the obscenely huge bulk quantities of junk food but their choice of music runs towards "I'm sad, I wanna eat".

Lots of "all by myself, don't wanna be all by myself anymore ...." songs like that.

Maybe that's a marketing plan

I much prefer a small Mexican market a little further away. It's family run, they have a few of these so it's like a mini-chain here. It's more of a limited selection but right smack dab off my commute. They have good meat and produce and yes, they label the origination of the produce.

Music's much cheerier too. And yes, they have bike racks.

Other than that TJ's or ..... right now I'm off to the farm market. Simmering in the crockpot is a chicken carcass from Costco, I just got a mirepoix of celery, carrots, onion and whatever else seems good in it. It's soup weather.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

There was even a bottle of "sugar free imitation honey". I can't imagine what it is made of. I didn't look. lol.

If it's like this:

Then its ingredients would be something like this:
Maltitol syrup, natural and artificial flavor, acesulfame k, malic acid.

Exactly what I want in my tea! (not)
Just eeeeewwwww.

[Tuckervill]

Lisa, that was it, exactly! ewwww.

Karen

[OakLeaf]

and more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...arms-pollution

[shootingstar]

As far as I know...We can't purchase any overseas honey @ supermarkets in Aust. nor can we recieve any from overseas...

Interesting, CC.

Getting back to bikes, looks like some bike assembly models are more of a global effort. See 2nd last paragraph here for the Dutch bikes that are on loan for public use during the Olympics.

[crazycanuck]

Shootingstar...here are two links that i'm sure you'll love..

http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis

http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/index.htm

[Trek420]

Our coffeemaker recently went kaput, so we spent about four hours looking for one not made in China. Finally, one of the sales gals told me her sister found one on the Internet, a handmade coffeemaker made in Holland. Where there's a will there's a way, so they say.

I can not vouch for every single item but here's an online store that makes it easier to search:

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/landi...usa/index.html