Walmart's Organic Foods - A Deal Made in China?..Poison?
Walmart is a top US grocer and is neck and neck with competitors to be Organic Food Supplier to the US. This is a company known for mislabeling items as Made in the USA, publishing in press that all suppliers were ordered to "share their profits" ie, cut their prices, falsely labeling standard foods as organic, abusing workers in Chinese factories, falsely labeling "game meat" as other meat, abusing US workers, becoming the no. 1 supplier of organic milk to the US (from a Dairy the US gov't cited for 14 organic violations).... this is really too easy to report on, so, why are so many flocking to Walmart organic food? They sell it cheaper. You get what you pay for folks. Would people vote with their wallets and shop elsewhere for organics? Might, if mainstream news covered Walmart's "issues" with organic, and other, foods it sells.
Walmart's biggest problem, which it is institutionally incapable of solving, is it's REFUSAL to report where most of it's food is sourced (hint, Walmart's sourcing headquarters is in China). The concept of "mystery" organic food is an oxymoron. The entire precept of organic food is that it is VERIFIABLY SAFE TO EAT, from farm to store. No pesticide, fertilizer, harmful chemicals used to grow, preserve or process it. Walmart's "secret supply chain", whether is hides it under secondary companies (it effectively controls by being it's main buyer, or only buyer), or whether it hides it under "proprietary house brand", violates this most fundamental precept.
Since mainstream press isn't addressing this issue, please copy this around, it's the only way people will learn to protect themselves.
Here are a few links to the issues Walmart has had with food, and for anyone not aware of the dismal state of food in China (industrial chemicals in food, 1/2 of land contaminated with pesticide, heavy metals or chemicals, more than 1/2 of water polluted, rampant use of banned in the US antibiotics in meat, pesticides in food, heavy metal in fruit, endemic corruption ....):
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