Food From China: Do you know where your food comes from?

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I am so beside myself right now. I went to Wal-Mart to buy groceries, and I went to the frozen fish section to get salmon. I pick up the package and on the back it said " distributed by Wal mart" I said "hmmmm; what does that mean?" Well on the other side of the package the words: PRODUCT OF CHINA were written! Can you believe that we are still getting food from China after all of the recent recalls? Why on earth are we getting salmon from China? WE don't need to!!!!! The other things I found were the candy canes at Christmas were either product of China or Mexico. I am just stunned that Brachs, Spangler and Bob's are all making their candy in Mexico. I called the Hershey company to thank them for making their candy in the USA, (as their brand was the only one I could find made in the USA) and the customer service rep let me know that even Hershey is moving 10% of their candy production to Mexico. I promptly let her know that I would be one less customer for Hershey. I have since done extensive research on this subject and what I have unearthed is astounding! Just to give you an idea of how wide spread the consumption of questionable product from China is take Vitamin C or citric acid added to many foods, suplements etc. 80% comes from China! Folic Acid, this goes into baby formula among other things: from China. I could go on and on, and our government shot down the bill that would require companies to disclose where the INGREDIENTS they use come from. So where does that leave you and I the consumer? At the mercy of those who really don't like us. How much of this stuff is really being checked out? There is no way with the volume of things arriving from China daily that those products are checked for safety. Do you trust food from China or Mexico? Why are we not eating our own salmon? Why are we sending fish from the US to China to be processed and then shipped back to the US? Gosh I am so angry right now. Do you think that we can overreact to such things? I don't think so, and I say buy American!!! Don't reward these companies that do these things! Let our congressmen know we are not happy. I know there are so many people who can not afford to buy American, but try to pick certain things that you will only buy American made. This is not even a drop in the bucket on this subject of just food from China, I am not even addressing other goods from China.