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- From: SaladG AT aol.com
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:04:11 EDT
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.
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[Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores,
SaladG, 08/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, road's end farm, 08/11/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores,
Bill Shoemaker, 08/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, Catherine S, 08/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, Home Grown Kansas!, 08/12/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, SaladG, 08/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, Mathew Landi, 08/12/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, Bill Shoemaker, 08/12/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Imports in our Local stores, Bill Shoemaker, 08/12/2007
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