[BITList] Frozen food

[Bill and Diana]

Hi Hugh,

You need to be careful about eating only local food, we down under might 
just stop buying your Dundee Shortbread and best First Malt.

It's all about trade, I don't think we have a manufacturing industry 
anymore.  Everything from bottle openers to warships are imported.  My 
wardrobe is filled with clothes from China.  We even import woollen 
carpets from New Zealand.

Just to keep the stuff on the shelves all year round, we import fruit 
and vegetables from California at times.  We spend more on importing 
tinned fish than we make exporting crayfish, prawns and abalone.  It's 
an odd world.

Salaams

Bill Ross - Downunder.

HUGH MCINTYRE wrote:
> Tuesday night,
>  
> Before sticking a piece of frozen cod in the oven this evening, 
> something on the package caught my eye : Produced and packaged in 
> China.  Thus armed, I did a tour of the freezer. I found chicken 
> drumsticks from Brazil, and ready cooked chicken breast (sliced) from 
> Thailand.  We are not great ones for chicken, so the cats gets the 
> chicken, but why bloody China, Brazil and Thailand, and all the links in 
> the chains?  The closest I could find to the UK was something produced 
> and packaged in the EU.  I should forestall discussion on a cat getting 
> chicken by saying she was brought up by our daughter, and we had to 
> continue the diet. These items were bought from a well known frozen food 
> chain who used to make a great noise about their ethical polices - Iceland.
>  
>  From now on we buy fish from the fishmonger, and make sure we never eat 
> the cat's chicken.
>  
> Hugh.
> 
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