Imported Food

[WovenGems]

Don't know about you, but I don't trust that stuff. I mean, does anybody check Vietnamese Catfish raised in the Mekong River for traces of Agent Orange? And that is major river and thus polluted. I think we import food to bypass inspections. We are seeing far more food recalls now than we did thirty years ago.
I even check to see if the orange juice is made from Florida oranges.

[egold2604]

1. Great Post

I have stopped eating most processed foods all together. I hadn't thought about Agent Orange in farmed catfish. However, the reports of these fish and shrimp being raised in sewage has turned me off to eating farmed fish. I live in Central PA and the state has told us not to eat more than one fish from PA waters a month due to mercury and other chemicals in the fish.

We only eat wild caught fish, but it is too expensive to eat often.

[frazzled]

2. That is a ridiculously overgeneralized statement

I avoid buying Mexican or Peruvian vegetables, for instance, because I feel it's better to just eat seasonally and local in the vegetable world. But I have on rare occasion bought Australian lamb or a foreign-caught fish. (I buy Italian tinned tuna kind of regularly ... because, well, because it tastes way better.)

But "imported food" in general? I mean, you've never bought (or wanted to buy) Belgian chocolate, African or South American coffee beans, Italian olive oil, French cheeses, or any other imported food? You'd be missing out on a lot if you never tasted one of those things.