Another Reason Not to Buy Food From Wal-Mart

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anonalon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:40:18 GMT

cont. from my last post. Most of the white people I know have and do shop in Walmart and they are not poor. Most of the Spanish people I know and my husband knows have NEVER even stepped foot into a Walmart nor would they. I get upset because I see a lot of comments like this posted on the internet and it's ridiculous. I am not saying you meant it that way however. I think Hollywood does a great job of putting the mexican, colombian, cuban, puerto rican, dominican, and all of the other cultures in the movies and portray them as the help. They are the maids, the gardeners, the ones who have the cars that bounce up and down or live in the ghetto's and can't speak english.
There are MANY latin, hispanic, spanish people who are nothing like how hollywood portrays them. Just like there are many whites who are not the dumb rednecks who can't dance that Hollywood portrays. There are many Blacks who are not the violent ignorant people who don't care for their children's educations. And it offends me when people just assume or classify one ethnicticity or race all up into one.
Also all of the hispanics I know speak great if not perfect english. They are against illegal immigration and believe that everyone that comes here should learn english. And a lot of the people you see who haven't learned english yet, they want to and are trying.
And back to the education thing. I'm the "white" person in the family and I'm the one without taking my education to where I needed to. I got a certificate in accounting and a low level nursing education. I was suppose to be a Physician but my health failed and now I have a wonderful patient, educated, hispanic man who cares for me and helps me and encourages me that my dreams can still come to fruition.

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anonalon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:23:57 GMT

.I'm not a huge fan of Walmart. With that said, I will point out that it can be convenient for someone like me who is quite ill. I can't always shop out in the heat (my health doesn't permit it) nor can I shop period at times. There are times I have to go late at night to grab something and if I did not I would not eat. My husband and I completely boycotted Walmart because they were putting places we loved out of business. Due to my illness and where we relocated we had to start back shopping there. We do however go to other places when we can so as not to give all of our business to Walmart.

Now to the poster Magnolia: I am hoping you were not saying in your post that hispanics are poor and uneducated. That is how I took it and if I am wrong I apologize. My husband is hispanic and he is educated. 99 percent of his friends are hispanic and are more educated than most white people I know. I also lived in an upper middle class neighborhood growing up and did not see the white people there as near as educated and or taking their educations as serious as my husband and his family and hispanic friends. Most of my husband's friends graduated with a 4 year college degree or more, some graduated from Princeton, some are actors that some of you watch on your favorite t.v. shows who are doing quite well for themselves, some are in movies, some are engineers, doctors, some live in mansions, and some of the most affluent neighborhoods in Miami. He has more friends then I have family and my family is HUGE on both sides and I think he only has one friend who is not educated and this person ended up starting his own business and is quite wealthy off of it now. cont.

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A.M.E. — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:19:32 GMT

I just saw an article with this first line: "China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis."

Talk about swift justice? Too bad this is probably only to try to save face to their country. The article can be found here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_as/china_tainted_products

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TheSalaman — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:25:32 GMT

Wait a minute.........isn't Mercola's wonderful cookware manufactured in CHINA!!! No way can we trust it!

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Shwony — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:22:31 GMT

After reading this article I went looking for markets that stock fresh produce by local growers and found a real gem in Clayton, Georgia, 20 miles from my home. It is a fruit and vegetable stand featuring everything from eggplants to Videlia onions to a great variety of homemade breads, all supplied by small farms in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. I had passed this store many times on my way to the Clayton Wal-Mart Supercenter but never stopped there. I'm so glad I took Dr. Mercola's advice and will never buy produce from Wal-Mart again.

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miltondonna2005 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:57:09 GMT

Wal-Mart is the enemy of all Americans. Watch Robert Greenberg's "The High Cost of Low Price" and you will never shop at Wal-Mart ever again.

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Dr. Rick — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:51 GMT

Russ's comments are highly appropriate. I have zero trust in any food or nutritional product that comes from China and I don't want to risk putting it in my body. China's food products are untraceable because they have no enforceable standards. Unfortunately, deception seems to be part of the prevailing business ethic. I now always check what I buy at the grocery store, and I only buy foods from the USA and Canada (and sometimes Chile).

Here's an idea: Can we post a list of specific food products with known ingredients from China? For example, many bottled juices now come from China.

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Yod — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:51:16 GMT

Worldnetdaily had a report just the other day that China is farming seafood for export to the U.S. in contaminated sewage!
On top of all this tainted food, the Chinese Communist Party is absolutely criminal. It has murdered 80 million Chinese citizens in its 56 year history. They're torturing to death any and all 'dissidents', whether they be political, religious or otherwise in state-run labor camps called laogai. Now it has been discovered that they are removing organs from *living* prisoners of concience to sell at exhorbitant prices on the international market. This is going on now, and the Olympic games are still scheduled in Beijing next year?! Remember Nazi Germany did the exact same thing.

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Sonagi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:29:14 GMT

As awful and corrupt as our food "watchdogs" the FDA and USDA are, the Chinese government is even more incompetent and corrupt.. This is no surprise. When we compare the US and China, we are comparing a wealthy, advanced country with a developing country in which nearly a billion people do not get enough to eat. Some of my Chinese friends feel that China is getting picked on unfairly. I disagree. Food safety IS a serious problem, and even if the central government is serious about improving food safety, there is a saying in Chinese, "The emperor is far away in Beijing," meaning that it is easy for local officials to flout laws and do their own thing, and the central government usually sides with local officials over angry citizens anyway. International attention to the problem of Chinese import safety will ultimately push China to clean up its act.

One thing I really, really appreciate about being back in the US is the growing popularity of farmers' markets. In China and Korea, there were small produce vendors, but they got their goods from wholesalers. Prices were cheaper than at large supermarkets, but the produce came from the same large farms. The farmers' market in my city accepts only vendors who sell what they grow and raise themselves on their own farms. I put money directly into the hands that planted, weeded, and harvested my fruits and vegetables, hands that cared for the animals whose bodies will nourish me. I feel good about what I eat.

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peggysue777 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:17:48 GMT

I quit shopping at Walmart a year ago, I had bought some meat there and gotten food poisoning. I thought I was going to die!! When my husband called the manager, she said "what makes you think you got it here?" she could have cared less. He told her, please check your meat counter, because other people could be getting sick. She honestly did not care!! This is NOT what you want to hear from a Manager at a store. When I was well enough to take back this rotten meat, the girl at Customer Service wouldn't even look at me!! Is this what they were taught? That was it for me, I quit shopping there, and refuse to buy from a store as such. I go to my regular grocery store, which is much closer, I get the friendly people that really care about me, a lot fresher products. I don't care if it cost a little more. I believe Sam Walton was probably a good man, but when he died, this largest grocery chain has been going downhill!!

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JoelMeyers — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:53:02 GMT

It could be that food contaminated in China may coming to a Walmart's near you. But a case of USA-homegrown ecoli is not hard to find.

Global billionaire bankers want you to sacrifice your own life to enforce the system, indoctrinating you through school, religion and media, to serve as a war criminal.

Communist revolutions are a response to desperate suffering under capitalism, as it collapses under the weight of its own dysfunctionality and bankruptcy.

Agribusiness and pharmaceuticals kill for handsome profits. Death profits also come from shortages of necessities (supply and demand) like having farmers paid for not growing food even though people starve. War means a cash flow from munitions, no matter who wins, and protection for investment properties.

When capitalists kill people for profits, they are not executed, but rewarded. Halliburton's Dick Cheney is doing fine.

The rise of privileged bureaucracies falls short of any ideal, and some corruption is unavoidable. But we're talking peanuts, not Rockefeller fortunes.

The capitalist globalized world market may force developing China to welcome exploitation by imperialist capital, compounding the difficulties of reconstructing capitalism into socialism in the early stages. and oppressed China into a first-rate economy..

Even with cheap wages and horrendous conditions. the planned economy overrides market chaos, and the Chinese people have the highest standard of living ever in history, with an average longevity comparable to the U.S. industrial behemoth in decline.

Some Chinese bureaucrats may be lining pockets to some degree, even under penalty of execution, but China is emerging as a first class power, instead of an oppressed colony, and without far-flung investments in a colonial empire of their own.

meyersjoel@yahoo.com

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zippos — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:10:24 GMT

Why in the world are the consumers in the US not purchasing US fruits and vegetables??? Maybe I'm naive but aren't we growing them too?

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Judywho_203 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:46:44 GMT

It's not just Wal-Mart, I just looked at the dried Fuji apples from Costco! Yes, they are from China! Thank you, Dr. Mercola, for getting the word out. We all need to beware, no matter where we shop.

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Marnie1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:51:35 GMT

There are a lot of different things going on that need to be considered. China is a completely different culture, & cannot be judged by our standards. (How would you like to be judged by another culture and punished for the differences?) China is still "experimenting" w/democracy & free trade. The small cottage industries that have suddenly become traders with the US have lived in such poor conditions for so many years... All they know is that they suddenly have a demand for their product, & the faster they can make it the more money they can make. So, these small producers use anything available--with encouragement from the trading companies. Almost everything sent to the US from China is done by a trading company. The trading companies are the ones who exploit the cottage industries. We can't blame the peasants for finally seeing a way out of their misery.

How many of you know that we have US Customs officers stationed in airports & ocean ports all over China to examine exports to the US? (All over the world, actually, but China was the 1ST country to have officers stationed through this program.) And how many shipments still slipped through & got detained on this side? Guess who's job it is to protect the food supply? The FDA. HMMMM....

And one last comment. Quite bashing free trade. I still haven't heard "that great sucking sound" that was predicted when we initiated free trade with Mexico. Still don't see it with Canada. How about South America, countries in Europe, Australia,--we have free trade agreements with most of the world now. If we didn't, how much do you think you'd pay for your Honda Civic?