Advocating for consumer awareness
Posted By: MTness on 2007-05-03
In Reply to: Here!Here! or should that be HearHear! -sm - DumDum
We start by addressing the company that buys products from China. We all have a right to ask about any food product we eat, we have a right to ask the company directly if they use products from outside the United States, and if those products are monitored or regulated. We can write or call food companies. Usually there is an 800 number on the label of products we buy. We contact them and ask if all components that go into their products are grown here on American soil. We contact our politicians and petition for better consumer information, that it be more readily transparent when products are purchased from foreign countries. And you get on the internet and find local and national consumer protection agencies either government or otherwise, and enlist with them in the fight for more transparency in where companies purchase components that go into products for human consumption. I know we are all so busy, but that is the problem in our country today -and corporations take advantage of this fact. They build empires because of this reason.
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