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Old Jan 5, 2021 | 6:48 pm
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Originally Posted by BamaVol
well, the price difference is obvious. There was also a can of store brand peeled tomatoes, probably grown in Mexico, at $1.49.
Or California. There is a French documentary called Empire of the Red Gold (literal translation into English). A California farmer was interviewed. His farm (or perhaps 3 of them) supposedly produces more tomatoes than Italy (hard to fathom)..

There have been similar stories about shrimp and garlic. FWIW, French independent lab-analysed tested of random packages of farm shrimp from India, Madagascar among other places found that antibiotic levels were either non-existent or at levels a fraction of maximum permissible in the E.U.

The one about garlic (Ail love you) strangely did not test garlic from China. Chinese production is apparently centered around Shandong where it has been cultivated for close to 2,000 years.
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