food made in China

Can't believe that we've reached the point of importing food items from China.
Sainsbury's should be ashamed of themselves!!
I have a feeling that most on here are very label savvy. Did any of you see the Fish Fight programme on Channel 4 yesterday evening?? Tesco's up to there old tricks again with labelling and non ethically caught tuna.

Didn't see that programme gangy5 but it doesn't surprise me about supermarkets and old tricks.

I had no idea that anything other than noodles or some chinese sauces were made jn China! I know Cadbury's chocolate is made in Poland, putting Bristol people out of work, since that dreadful American woman took over Kraft had a change of chief executive

Yup! You need to check labels all the time now. I will only buy meat from here in the UK for example , when buying chicken in Tesco, most of it was from South America.I did find some fresh chicken pieces from UK but not frozen.I have the time [nowadays] luckily to check labels but most people do not.With China's poor record [think of what they did to their own baby milk formulae] I would not eat a single thing made there.

Can we be so sure if we buy an occasional ready meal?

I certainly would not buy Chinese chocolate - for no other reason in that it is bl***y awful ! DD always has chocolate on her list for me to take for her in Beijing.
LIke many others I do try to buy British as much as I can.

Does the UK still allow food be labelled British even if it is imported provided that it is packed in Britain?

I'm pretty sure that all of Lidl's fresh (and some of the frozen) meat is UK sourced, and a lot of it has the Red Tractor symbol

They should label it, M&S do I think.

Would like to know how old some of the frozen stuff is in some supermarkets (I mean before it gets sent to the shops)

absent since I became an avid label reader, I have discovered that it states where packed and then where produced or made. Sometimes the print is very small, but it has to be there.I just wonder how many stores now will have their things made in China [I know it's made there 'under Licence' but even so.]Here is a small cake made by me and also packed by me

I always check labels, and put anything back that is made in China. The thought of chicken coming from Thailand or Brazil makes me feel sick, heavens only knows what junk they are fed on , and the animal welfare rules just dont apply. I also dont buy Dutch or Danish bacon because they didn't ban farrowing pens as we did in Britain. I dont buy Irish beef ( actually dont buy any beef anymore) because I just dont trust the source, sorry. I dont buy Cadburys because of the reasons that Rosequartz stated.

You can feed chickens pretty much anything. They are omnivores. They don't think anything edible is junk except, perhaps, layers' pellets (i.e. "proper" <cough, cough> chicken food made of fishmeal and soy – stuff they wouldn’t naturally eat). Ours turned their noses up at it but they would eat anything else from grass and grubs in the grass, to mice and any leftovers from the house.

Quite happy to eat chicken that has grubbed around and eaten what it fancies, just dont fancy chicken that has been fed industrial grain with growth agents!

Chickens seem to go mad for pumpkin, SIL said it's like chocolate for them!
DD1 and SIL's chickens produce lovely tasty eggs and they eat all the scraps plus grub around the farm each day.

Well, not ALL I hasten to add, the vegetable peelings and other veg surplus to requirements, not meat or fish.

chickens also like apples, DH used to have a relative with a small holding and the chickens roamed around the apple trees and ate the fallers.

Ours liked grated cheese and bacon fat (cooked or raw), or the chopped fat off chops and, as I intimated above, they happily ate raw mouse meat whenever they could catch any.

At least the mouse meat is British

I very often do my food shopping online - mainly with Tesco - and I get frustrated that there is no way of checking where the food is produced. I have emailed Tesco in the past and asked if they could add the origin of items to their website but they still don't do it

Getting back to China / Asian posts, my chickens love rice, noodles, nam bread and left over curries.

Nestle's the same about production in different countries. Three different size Smarties made in three different countries. One size is not suitable for people with nut allergies. They even make York Fruits in Poland, I think.

Look at the Trading Standards website to find out about food labelling. They are responsible for policing them if you find a problem.

AKA no need to spice your chicken dishes then [when you cook them!] they come naturally spicy.

Rosesare wash your mouth out! I'd never eat Delphine, Cous Cous, Coco, Violette, Sheila or Shanghai Lil, they are purely egg layers