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Know where your food is imported from.
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thanks ....I am tired of imported shrimp myself... i want my shrimp local an fresh as possible
Copy and paste from Wiki How:
#* UPC Bar codes are typically registered and used in the United States and Canada and, therefore, do not indicate a country identifier.
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A similar bar code system is EAN (European Article Number). It contains 13 digits and also indicates the country in which the bar code was registered. Read the first "3" digits of the code to determine this.
Example: If the first 3 digits of the bar code are 690, 691, or 692, the country in which the code was registered was China.
It is important to note that the country code in EAN bar codes does not indicate where the product was manufactured [1] For example, if the bar code begins with 64, then it was registered in Finland (probably to a company that was headquartered in Finland). Look more closely at the packaging, however, and you may find that the product was "Made in China".
So the info the OP gave us is used for the EAN (European Article Number)
#* UPC Bar codes are typically registered and used in the United States and Canada and, therefore, do not indicate a country identifier.
1
A similar bar code system is EAN (European Article Number). It contains 13 digits and also indicates the country in which the bar code was registered. Read the first "3" digits of the code to determine this.
Example: If the first 3 digits of the bar code are 690, 691, or 692, the country in which the code was registered was China.
It is important to note that the country code in EAN bar codes does not indicate where the product was manufactured [1] For example, if the bar code begins with 64, then it was registered in Finland (probably to a company that was headquartered in Finland). Look more closely at the packaging, however, and you may find that the product was "Made in China".
So the info the OP gave us is used for the EAN (European Article Number)
Does anyone else find it sad that with all the really good fish caught in North America (fresh and salt water) we export most of it and then import all that garbage fish from Southeast Asia (Swai, Tilapia, Basa etc)?
well this is an internationally founded, hosted and certainly enrolled website budly. that being said it's important to be aware of where your food comes from, the spirit of this thread.
if you like shrimp try finding wild caught from So. American waters, usually processed at sea so trawlers can unload & continue fishing, wild caught from Mexico are great & fairly priced. If you're tickled pink buying cheap shrimp below the usual @ market prices you're taking big risks.
Trust your fish by shopping origin as well, lots of fine fish are caught wild right here in American waters, processed and marketed here; especially delicious but spendy are our crab & lobster species.
I'm lucky enough to live in minnesota, fresh fish is never an issue here.
Canned veggies are always a bad idea no matter their origin, fresh is @ your local grocers but may be gmo. Best is your local food co-op, farmers market or organic grocery market.
Green Giant frozen vegetables are from China , and so are most of Europe's Best. Arctic Gardens are okay and so is Birdseye.
Never buy the grocery store garlic unless it is clearly marked from USA or Canada.
Why specifically the garlic?
because it's grown in shit elsewhere.
human shit.
You mean not shithawks? But seriously any thing from commercial food chains is garbage.but people without money to afford proper food are doomed which is most of the planet
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OGShaman
Is there any fish in the world that is actually safe to eat? If it's not some farm raised disaster from China, it's wild caught but overfished, and on the brink of extinction. You can't win.
Not to mention polluted seas and god knows what else
I probably should have stressed the importance of food co-ops. Find one and join by paying a fee, all of your purchases for the next year are discounted while non-members pay a premium price to shop there.
They also use members for their help, cashiers, floor help, stocking etc; all volunteer but usually compensated by a deeper discount on purchases, usually a shift is no more than 3-4 hours and members volunteer for however many they like or none at all.
End of year all profits are divided first amongst all co-op members and then a portion of profits also go to the members that worked shifts, based upon the exact number of hours each one worked; it might work out to equal no more than $2 or so per hour after paying out to all members first but based on it being volunteer work & compensated by discount it could be a substantial amount for a lower income household.
opportunities are still out there, but instead the grocers of the world would rather lead you by the nose to your death as you enter their stores.
Excellent point stoner but there's nothing like that around me and people here are too ignorant to care.but I will still look into that.thanks.I would also like to add that my dad and I are trying to grow organic fruits and veggies for organic restaurants in our green house and we sell bud to the owner,he's a real yogi,but my dad is going to prison in a month or two so I guess that won't work cuase I can't do it by myself so that sucks but we tried to provide real food.if anyone wants to know the real deal read survival in the twenty first century the book.really great book.opened my eyes to real health
I get local produce and meats. but I aint near ocean anymore and point loma seafood is like 350 miles away...lol...I can however get fresh tuna as it is special ordered......
This is especially concerning when you consider recent headlines like "20% of China's farmlands are heavily polluted"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/w...-farmland-is-polluted-state-report-finds.html
Or that chinese rice can contain as much as 200 times the safe level of heavy metals:
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/after-cadmium-rice-now-lead-and-arsenic-rice/
You really have to watch out - i like "canned" peaches, if you buy the DelMonte brand in the plastic jars they come from China, but if you buy the same brand in glass jars, bingo, American Peach's!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/w...-farmland-is-polluted-state-report-finds.html
Or that chinese rice can contain as much as 200 times the safe level of heavy metals:
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/after-cadmium-rice-now-lead-and-arsenic-rice/
You really have to watch out - i like "canned" peaches, if you buy the DelMonte brand in the plastic jars they come from China, but if you buy the same brand in glass jars, bingo, American Peach's!
