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djean111

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2. And yet - we buy all kinds of food from China, and are supposed to trust that it is okay.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 10:56 AM

Jan 2015

The TTP has restrictions against labeling foods to show country of origin, by the way. No, China is not a signatory, but other countries that, say, raise shrimp in filthy conditions and then bleach them before sending them here for us to eat - those shrimp will not be labeled because we might not want to buy them if we knew where they came from.

Yeah, the TPP is a wondrous thing - but not for American consumers. Of anything.

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