I know this is a stuiped place to put this rant but just watched Marketplace on CBC and how food is labelled "Product of Canada" is not actually from here. Loopholes with Ag Canada say the last "transformation " of the product entitles it to be prod od Canada. There is no Highliner fish from Canada anymore, even though they're box's say it. Fish comes in from China,Vietnam,Indonesia etc. Infact fish and shrimp from these area that are grown on fish farms are all on a watch for pesticides and fungisides as well as general poor conditons in the processing. Hell even the Haddock and Salmon are from Russia , then shipped down the pacific to a processer in China then Re-shipped down all the way around to the panama canal and up to Boston , or Lunenburg a f'n 25,000 km trip. Now that's fresh. Even garlic , says it's product of Canada on the jars but almost all is from China, some from Mexico and South America , then processed in Canada. There is no way any company can say 'We monitor the growing process" , if it's in China they're only gonna show them what they want. Just like the lead paints. Here's the link


http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/product_of_canada_eh/

Also I was at costco and bought a big package of smoked oyster's for over the holiday's, in to much of a rush after a free sample and didn't look at country of origin. After eating one tin I see it's China and go online to find out mollusk's , oyster's etc have high rates of DDT and other pesticides that are banned, WTF .

http://www.news-medical.net/print_article.asp?id=25270

Boy we've really f'd ourselves . Just watch what your letting your families eat.

Yep saw that episode before. No boats in the harbour when you by from poison ponds.

You taking it up a notch for your "Tranny Ho"

Thanx it is in the garbage now

I notice at Food Basics/A&P and such some of the fish is from China

I will not it that crap anymore

What about Blue Water? or Janes???

According to Marketplace you have to contact the company and by law then then have to say it's origin. That's if they know where it came from. Loblaws took a couple of weeks to respond to Marketplace with the origin of some of it's products. Even today my wife and I were at Dominion to get stuff to make Christmas cookies and we were looking for decoration stuff, all the tubes for cake decoration said "imported for " , well if your not afraid of wher you got it put it on the label.

BTW Rick if I want to kick it up a notch with my tranny ho , I only use fresh oyster's . Or maybe scugog clams!!

I just watch market place at 11am or so today

it is sickening

51% of the cost has to be Canadian to be consider product of Canada

NOT 51% of the stuff in the packaging but rather 51% of cost

Costco is one of the biggest Chinese buyers out there,which is sad since we pay for a membership and a premium for most stuff there

So where's the Costco beef come from??

BIL shops there all the time...

Costco beef is awesome... Who knows how they get it so tender???? My old next door neighbor was a meat inspector and he used to tell the story of how Ponderosa rest. used to have it's own slaughter houses and he would go there and watch as the beef was injected with some kind of muscle relaxant to tenderize the meat. he said the cattle had to be lifted on forklift to get them too the line for slaughtering ... Ugly stuff! There is a good chance that any cheap frozen fish at grocery chain store that seems like an amazing deal probably came from the orient... Get used to it... Canadian labor is too expensive cut up fresh fish and sent it to the big stores. It is all about price... I prefer to catch my own.. At least I know about the mercury............

I don't worry about the fresh meat at Costco or any supermarket, it's the canned , frozen and packaged product from any country that has lax'd laws and still uses DDT etc. BTW most of the highliner was not only the cheap stuff but it was there expensive stuff too. I mean this is our families and what we put on the table, I agree I'd rather catch it here.

It appears that our governement is working hard for our safety...............not!

Why is it so hard to say where the product originally came from and where it was processed? This should be on all the boxes IMO. I'm sure our government will get right on that.

30lbs of fresh pickeral and pike in my freezer for winter cookouts from spring time. I like to catch my own too. Looks like my friends ice hut will be going on G-bay january 1st.

Billy eats only quality fish, smells like fish, tastes like chicken.

No Captain Hind Grinder for me.

You eat cat fish?

All costco beef in Canadian raised in Canada. Canada Grade A Beef that's it, M&M uses alot of Australian Beef and loblaws sells US Beef as do most supermarkets as well as Canadian.

Had costco shrimp and scallops for dinner with pasta and a garlic pesto sauce . Couldn't help but think about what I had read here earlier.. Sometimes it is best to be uneducated.... I guess I will stick to the local stuff too. Hope to be out fishing before the new year..

Unfortunately, MOST OF CANADA IS UNEDUCATED.

Next we will find out that all our beer is brewed in Mexico. Our government sucks.



Jim

I just wrote off a load of vegetables which originated in China, container shipped to Vancouver, trucked to Ontario, over 10K in freight charges along the way, 50K worth of product, all of which is/can be grown right here in Ontario......Guess what nationality the distributor is?

You wonder why our food is so expensive

I worked on a potatoe farm here yrs ago

The growers here can not sell local produce carrots/potatoes/strawberry,cabbage etc to the grocery stores

as the big monopolys are based in TO or Montreal and have contracts with huge farms from all over

Say in June you go get berries at the A&P,Food basics or wherever the berries are from Mexico or California yet you get get the sweet ones here at the farm but the farm is not allowed to supply the stores

same goes for Blue berries ever buy the tasteless crap in the stores and then get the wild ones

Freez, you and Dan Quayle been hanging out?

I doubt he is hanging with quayle but I bet he has eaten a few quail.

It was a joke. Check 'potato'

hey I am french

time for a bigger summer garden, and canner.