Question

Do you check the country of origin in the food label?

Answer 1

Yes, always. Some manufacturers try to fool consumers by putting "packaged in the USA" in big bold letters and in very small print "grown in China".

Answer 2

Very much ! I check them really well. They like to hide the origins in tiny letters or behind a well known brand as "imported by"  but never say where. You really have to look at most things to really tell where they came from.

Comments

Good morning Rooster  

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Good morning Skip ! Nice to see you ! 

Answer 3

Yes I do. I especially check when buying dog food , dog toys, dog treats, if it's not made in USA, I don't buy it! 

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You really have to look at pet foods and toys nowadays ! I remember going into Petco looking for a squeaker toy for Hunter and told them I didn't want anything from China ! I found ONE toy .

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I know Rooster. I check every label on things I buy for my dog. It's very hard to find items made in the US. 

Answer 4

Of course, and it takes often time to find out about the true origin and the real ingredients!

And many consumer organisations, and with them, public control services, are investigating since many years, but too often, they are facing closed doors and "professional or manufacturing" secrets. Also public authorities can rarely intervene against well protected multinational trusts.

Even fruits, crops and vegetables labelled with "local production", or "fair trade" and "bio" might have been contaminated by pesticides from more or less neighbouring industrial cultures, or packed abroad, mixed with imported goods, or treated to prolong the shelf life, etc. And also fraud and adulteration are going on - since very long.

Here's an article in English:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food

About food scandals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_contamination_incidents

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2016/07/11/fake-food-scandals-a-bad-year-for-food-lovers/#158ef2293202

http://www.foodiejunky.com/10-biggest-food-scandals-that-shook-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_industry

The problem is that as good as everybody is being lied at and fooled.

This old parody - a fiction not thought (really?) to warn against mass production, big food industries and their bosses, but to entertain with much sarcasm - illustrates very well what really happened and still happens behind closed doors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wing_or_the_Thigh

About how a chicken is manufactured:

Answer 5

Yes I do!!

Not buying if not from the US.