Thread: Check the Can/label ~ Buy US

I have been checking for this ever since the pet food recall in 2007. there is also a ton of candy now made in China, the gf brought some home a couple of years ago around Halloween time and it was all made in China, I tossed all of it. seems like a lot of the gummy worm type of products that are simple sugar based.

American's are so dead set on being consumers they want more and more, so what do they buy, the cheaper products made in China (and elsewhere). Until people focus more on quality than quantity, I don't see this changing. Food items from outside of North America are never my first choice unless it is rice from say India or the middle east (the rare times I ever buy it).

Best part about where I live in TX, so many locally sourced items are available on the grocery shelf and in the produce section. It is exceptionally rare that I buy anything not grown in TX or the surrounding states (though a lot of veggies in winter are from Mexico which I am fine with).

Originally Posted by oufinny

Food items from outside of North America are never my first choice unless it is rice from say India or the middle east (the rare times I ever buy it).

I buy my 50 pound bags of rice from producers in California.

It is scary when you actually look at what is left that is actually American made. We are 98% dependent on overseas goods now, if you are to look at walmarts itemized goods listings. Christmas time is really nasty for my household. I remember I wanted for nothing when I was a kid - I had all the gi joes, transformers and legos. I kept all the legos and passed them to my kids - prolly worth 30k by todays prices. All my kids are deluged with new shit every year from 2 grandmothers, 1 step-grandmother, 4 sisters, brothers, friends, aunts, uncles... mostly chinese garbage. We don't buy them hardly anything because of it and keep asking family members to tone it down bigtime, but they never do. Some of it is never opened and all of it either finds it's way into the garbage or to the salvation army. What a waste.

Originally Posted by phosphor

It is scary when you actually look at what is left that is actually American made. We are 98% dependent on overseas goods now, if you are to look at walmarts itemized goods listings. Christmas time is really nasty for my household. I remember I wanted for nothing when I was a kid - I had all the gi joes, transformers and legos. I kept all the legos and passed them to my kids - prolly worth 30k by todays prices. All my kids are deluged with new shit every year from 2 grandmothers, 1 step-grandmother, 4 sisters, brothers, friends, aunts, uncles... mostly chinese garbage. We don't buy them hardly anything because of it and keep asking family members to tone it down bigtime, but they never do. Some of it is never opened and all of it either finds it's way into the garbage or to the salvation army. What a waste.

Preach on... my brother's house with his two girls is out of hand. What 7 year old needs a party with 30 people in attendance and 50 gifts? Freaking retarded if you ask me. I guess I am the only one who asks for things that I need more than want around the holidays and a few gifts is enough. Kids these days want way too much. My friends and I would make half the toys we played with, build forts, improvise with crap around the house for catcher's gear when we want to play baseball, and I am not that damn old here either! All I needed was some sports equipment, a pocket knife, hatchet and rope to keep me content for days on end. Hell, it could be zero out where I grew up in Chicago and we were out all day in the snow and would have to get yelled at to come in. Until my hands and feet were numb you couldn't get me in front of the Nintendo.

I bought a bunch of fireworks a couple weeks ago. I think they were made in China.