"Organic" food made in China!!??

[NataliaA]

This is why we have to buy local food from our farmers or plant our own garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ31Ljd9T_Y

[SarahB]

Wow! thanks for sharing!

[ClaireW]

Yeah, thanks for sharing! I did notice that a lot of items that Whole Foods carry do show that they are products of China while the USDA Certified Organics mark is there. I was always wondering how did they ensure these items are up to the US standards. Now I know: they do not!

[Dixie]

What a bummer!  As hard as us wholesome food health advocates struggle to be taken seriously this is really a setback. 
Whole Foods should be hung in the town square!  This really puts me in touch with my innner vigilante!
Dixie

[jodi f.]

Yes, eye-opening. I've been discovering the same thing about Trader Joe's, though they've always marketed themselves as a global marketplace. Still, some things that used to come from the U.S.--pinenuts, for instance--are now sourced from one or more far-flung countries, including China. So much for eating pine nuts. I don't care so much that these be organic or not (aren't all pine nuts wild?), but that they're traveling such long distances.

Now, on to the Horizon horror show right here in the States. A good friend, a previous Ag major, has several friends who raise "organic" cows for "organic" milk for Horizon. She told me today that these friends have told her that there is so little oversight into the operations, that sick cows do NOT get shuttled to the commercial herds. They're given drugs and allowed to stay with the organic crowd. I guess the moral to this story (same as it ever was) is to buy from small operations and as local as possible.