[Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores
SaladG at aol.com
SaladG at aol.com
Sat Aug 11 16:04:11 EDT 2007
We recently did a little research on what is in our grocery store that we
shop and was astounded to the amount of food in general that is shipped in from
China. It will really blow your mind when you start checking to point of
origin. In our local store all the frozen fish was shipped form china, frozen
juice private label (store Label) was all shipped in from china, fresh grapes we
all from Brazil, and it go's on and on. We the American farmer are really
getting the shaft when the grocer's tell us we as local growers cannot keep their
shelves full year around. It boils down to bottom line and nothing else, if
the produce they sell looks like crap it probably is. I had a produce manager
tell me he could get 25 days out of most of his produce, so really fresh stuff
doesn't really matter to him, all he wants is a really good price, or maybe I
could just give it to him really cheap if I have a lot of surplus, I had one
guy actually say that to me.
Phil from Iowa
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