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Post by jeffolie on Jul 9, 2007 17:58:06 GMT -6
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Post by blueneck on Jul 9, 2007 17:59:32 GMT -6
I guess I cross Hershey off my list now. This has been absolutely devastating to hershey PA, a town that depends heavily on Hershey Foods.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 9, 2007 18:22:02 GMT -6
Hershey's Moves Production to Facilities to MexicoJeff, Thanks for posting this. I, too, will cross Hershey's off my list of companies I'll by products from. I think this information needs to be disseminated widely. What's nice about this is that there are other companies that make chocolate, and it'll be quite easy to permanently boycott Hershey's.
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Post by Grappe on Jul 11, 2007 9:28:46 GMT -6
I was looking at some Hershey products in the store and they don’t even tell you were they were made. They generally say “Made by Hershey Manufacturing Corp”. Though this is better then some other companies who just say “Distributed by XXX Corp”. The reason why Hershey is slightly better is that at least they take responsibility for making their product, the “Distributed by” companies are basically saying “Don’t blame us, we don’t make it, we just distribute it”.
Luckily I don’t eat a lot of candy but while looking, I saw very few products which said “Made in the USA” or even “Made in (fill in the blank)” Some give a whole list of countries where the product could be made but don’t specify which country. So while the “free marketers” are saying they are giving the public a choice they remove information on which to base that choice on.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 11, 2007 13:44:09 GMT -6
They generally say “Made by Hershey Manufacturing Corp”. Though this is better then some other companies who just say “Distributed by XXX Corp”. The reason why Hershey is slightly better is that at least they take responsibility for making their product, the “Distributed by” companies are basically saying “Don’t blame us, we don’t make it, we just distribute it”.... This is something I've noticed as well. To me, the phrase "distributed by XXX company" in the USA translates to NOT made in the USA. When checking my own toothpaste (Crest), all I could find was "distributed by Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio." Again, in my opinion, this is the same as saying "we made it somewhere outside of the United States." I've seen the same thing on other products, such as staplers, that say "distributed by XXX company in the USA." As far as toothpaste goes, it might be time for Americans to start brushing with baking soda, or make their own toothpaste, or even brush without toothpaste. Clearly our government is no longer protecting us from dangerous products, nor is there even any requirement that manufacturers state where the product was made. "Buyer Beware" has never been more true than it is today.
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Post by blueneck on Jul 11, 2007 17:21:38 GMT -6
Yes - this is a disturbing trend I have been noticing and have commented on here before - more and more products are not showing country of origin on the labels. Now surely it can't mean its all domestic? Since I would think in this era of crappy and unsafe imported products that they would be proud to say USA. Didn't there used to be a law or regulation that all products had to be labeled with country of origin?
I wonder if this is some sort of Nafta or WTO dictated thing? or did congress sneak something thru eliminating the requirement - ala DeLay and Abramoff's labeling of Saipan made products as US?
It is almost impossible to make an informed decision without knowing amount of domestic content in a product.
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