I think folks have been asleep at the wheel, so to speak, as China gradually and quietly took over making almost everything we use....I've been noticing it, just kinda in a bemused sort of way, for a long time now...Assuming that was the way things were and I might as well get used to it.....NOW....the powers that be have finally woke up enough to start testing these items we are importing and GOLLEE!!! They are not made to the specs we depend on here in the good old US of A....I KNEW that we shipped poison sprays, etc. banned as unsafe to other countries, and then bought the produce back that is shipped in.....What can we do if it's not available grown here ? Eat something else, I guess....When you read of how the water supply is contaminated with all sorts of growth hormones...oh wait...that's the meat supply....chicken nuggets, etc.....The WATER is contaminated with everything else in the medical line...sex changes in little critters is common...Who knows if this is caused by our flushing unused meds down the 'crapper' or normal body wastes containing ingredients not absorbed by the human body OR foreign countries that want to see us go down the tubes dumping these things in our water supply ? Oh me...gotta get off here...too , too frightening and depressing for an old woman on such a loverly day up here on the ridge...The Sugar Snap peas have shot up out of the ground after lotsa rain and sun and Spring is indeed upon us....For today, anyway........ Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Friends, > > Have you tried to buy a product lately that is not made in China? It's very a frightening fact when you consider that everything from spiral notebooks to the food we eat comes to us containing poison and foul materials!