re: Chinese Apple Juice everywhere....WHY?

You should write a poem about the acceptable levels of rodent excrement in US canned goods

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I doubt you have any clue how many of the products you use come from foreign sources.

It's globalization.

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and there are some people trying to change that; however slowly they may be progressing. "buy local" is not simply a hipster or yuppie slogan to make themselves seem cool .. it's actually a very good economic model. if things continue to move forward and as more small businesses enter the marketplace (and hopefully government regulation stays away) then we'll continue to see reduced overhead and thus lower prices based on less transportation costs. also it's easier to pick and choose what you're putting in your body when you know what your local farmer or food producer is doing to your food.

FDA labeling oversight is pretty good at making the food factory companies be transparent. what we still need is a more educated public and one that cares about not poisoning themselves just because the companies with the biggest advertising budgets are in their collective ear 24/7.