Read those Labels?

How often do you read labels? I mean really read labels? We check to see what size clothes we are looking for, and sometimes the fat, sodium, fiber labels of food. But how often do you check the label of where your food is actually coming from? I shop at Whole Foods and always just blindly assumed that Whole foods always did what was best for me, Naive I know! Recently I saw this video that shocked the holy heck out of me!  Video is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JQ31Ljd9T_Y

Below is a link to the Whole Foods response to the above video.

http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/whole-foods-market-responds-to-wjla/

After watching this I sprinted, no joke, to my freezer to check out what was hiding there.  Luckily most of my frozen products said product of the USA, but some of them didn’t have a product location at all. But low and behold my frozen broccoli, which I use in my veggie lasagna, had it Product of China.  Into the chicken bin they went.  The ones that were blank I’m not throwing out, but I won’t be buying again unless it has the product location info on it.

Check those labels! Not only do frozen foods come from China, but so does some milk products! Milk is dried and then shipped to the USA where it is packaged for US companies.  I don’t know about you but I prefer my milk to be fresh and it’s not just me I have to think about.

Take care and read those labels who knows if your California blend is even from this country!

Organic clothing discount

Green as Wee Grow is offering a 20% discount on all items from now until August 31st 2009.  Green as Wee Grow is an organic baby & toddler clothing and bedding company.  All of our products are made in the USA all of our cotton comes from fair trade farms.  Come check us out. 

 Just our way of saying thank you!  The coupon code is blogged!  

http://www.greenasweegrow.com

 Happy shopping