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Originally Posted by roachboy
that's kinda funny.
how exactly do you determine which commodities are and are not made in china?
does this extend to components of commodities which are not "made in china" because the assembly plants are located somewhere else?
contemporary capitalism is way ahead of you---there's no effective distinction at the level of commodities between china and down the street from where you live. if there's a production facility near you, and it is owned by a corporation of any size, it's stock is held internationally. nothing is located anywhere in particular at the level of production. it's all part of that Great Big Detachment of Markets from the rest of social life that you've been conned into thinking means something.
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Dude, I'm not trying to start some kind of grass-roots "buy U.S.A." movement. I'm just saying we need to stop importing goods manufactured by China that are meant for ingestion, because their companies/factories are so corrupt, they
purposely put industrial chemicals into their goods.
That's part of capitalism, too, you know: discontinuing doing business with companies/factories that produce defective and/or harmful products, especially if they're produced that way
on purpose.
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Originally Posted by kutulu
Yeah that's not going to happen. Do you have any idea how much processed food (and even meats and fresh produce) is made in China?
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I have a pretty good idea.
Well, if it truly cannot be done (which I think is debatable), then we truly have made a deal with the devil.