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08-03-2007, 12:50 PM
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More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayof...ref=newssearch
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"Some of the food products that come from China may surprise you. Take an American staple like apple juice. The USDA says 50 percent of the apple juice imported in the United States today comes from China. That's an estimated 161,000 tons of apple juice compared to the 110,000 tons produced in the United States, according to the USDA."
That's scary. A product you always think of as healthy, that you feed to your kids comes from China and you have no way of knowing. Who knows what they spray on the apples and how sanitary their production process is.
Looking at a bottle of Motts AJ there is nothing stating where it comes from on the label or the bottle.
Am I just paranoid?
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08-03-2007, 01:30 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
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Am I just paranoid?
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No.
We only buy TreeTop because it's supposed to be from WA state apples.
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08-03-2007, 01:42 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
Looks like it's safer to drink wine than apple juice these days. [Wine region of origin labeling laws are strictly enforced.]
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08-03-2007, 01:45 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
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Looks like it's safer to drink wine than apple juice these days. [Wine region of origin labeling laws are strictly enforced.]
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Well, thats always been true. Until the late 19th century alcohol was safer to drink than water.
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08-03-2007, 01:51 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
Another quote from the article:
"You know where your sneakers come from but not your food."
Maybe producers who do not use any ingredients from China should start stating that on their labels.
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08-03-2007, 05:05 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
I wonder though - even if the apples come from the U.S., this doesn't mean they weren't shipped overseas to be made into juice...
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08-03-2007, 06:33 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
Who says that all food from other countries (including the US) isn't harmful? Heck, we can't even grow spinach properly...
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08-04-2007, 11:08 AM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
Greg, you can always use that argument of course, but I would prefer to get food from a country that has similar standards to the US and other developed countries for food that they supply to their own people.
US apple growers have to comply with all the regulations regarding chemicals used, etc. Then they have to compete with China where they don't have the same regulations, or they ignore them. No wonder Chinese produce is cheaper.
If the consumer knows where most other products come from, and can make decisions based on that knowledge, why not with food.
Cameron, I don't think that shipping apples to China would be cost effective. Just Google "China apple producers" and you will see that China is now the largest apple producer in the world.
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08-04-2007, 11:49 AM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
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Cameron, I don't think that shipping apples to China would be cost effective. Just Google "China apple producers" and you will see that China is now the largest apple producer in the world.
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I've been surprised many times by what actually gets outsourced, so I was kind of bracing myself for the shock that juice production gets done overseas too!  |
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08-04-2007, 12:04 PM
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Re: More than 50% of Apple Juice comes from China?
Read more of the article, which defeated my point. Careless of me.
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