What is something you wont by because of ??

I don't buy veal, but have no probelm with anyone else buying it. I just can't get past the whole veal process, but that is entirely me and my choice.

No artificail sweeteners here...even if I got past the toxicity, the stuff tates just plain nasty. We don't do a lot of soda to begin with, but never ever buy diet soda.

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Last pair of double knee loggers pants I bought, had Hecho en Mexico label on them... maybe they have moved their loggers back to the States... would be good news, I reckon. Love em to death, but I can get two pair of the competition's for the same price, and since I abandoned what I thought were Mexican loggers, I've bought probably a dozen pairs of the competition, and find they work just as well.
I can testify to the fact that meat does come from the grocery store. I spend quite a bit of time inside our local butchers market at the grocery store... when they need pig meat, they go in the freezer room and hunt around for a box of pork.... when they need rib eyes, they go in the freezer room, and yada yada yada... ...That's where the meat comes from, alright! [where's the facetiousness smiley]

I prefer fresh pork I slaughter myself.... however, it's hard to compete with free from the butcher....

Unless you slaughter and butcher yourself, you haven't got anything but 'trust' as to the cleanliness and quality of the meat. Home raised beef is like shoe leather if you don't 'age' it for a week or two.......something most homesteads aren't set up for. Around here, it's mighty difficult mustering two weeks of freezing weather.

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There is a brand of canned chicken product I still will not buy because I took a school sponsored summer job at their plant here in high school and saw some employees take a wiz into the broth vat when the floor supervisor told the regulars they had emegency production overtime called and went back to his office.

I went in and told the floor boss what was going on and he just said that happened sometimes and that was why he bought a different brand product himself, so I quit and told my parents to never buy that brand and I never have either.

That processing plant has been closed for about 30 years but I still won't buy that brand if I see it on the shelves because I figure if bad attitude employees did that sort of thing here way back then bad attitude employees may be doing it wherever they are producing it now.

Sure some other brand manufacturers may have employees doing the same or worse but I haven't had the opportunity to see it happen and don't vomit a little in the back of my mouth when I look at the can.

I like to think that maybe industry wide testing has improved over the last 30 years to check for wizz in the broth but it don't help me accept cans with that particular label on em.

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I won't buy conventional milk, eggs or meat, stuff with high fructose corn syrup, sugar, wheat products, conventional raisins or grapes (very heavy chemical applications for these crops), margarine, things with hydrogenated oils or cottonseed oil.....it would probably be easier to tell you what I do buy!

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Rape isn't exactly a poisonous plant (IIRC you can eat the leaves or feed them to livestock) but apparently the seeds sometimes do have a toxin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_napus

Makes me sort of glad that I buy primarily oils that come from tree fruit.

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One more time. Lets say it together now, Rapeseed and canola are not interchangeable, they produce different oil types. One more time, Rapeseed and canola.....

Definitely bad stuff,gives me an instant headache.

I thought of one more thing.... grocery store apples. In fact I buy very few apples from anywhere unless they are organic, and I trust the label. Apples are the highest pesticide infested crop in the nation. They are sprayed more than any other crop. So I don't buy apple products like juice, dried apples, applesauce, apples, apple cider, etc. Our tree doesn't produce enough for everything, so I buy them from the Amish. I don't mind having a wormy one now and then or an imperfect one if it means there are no massive amounts of pesticides in it. So, we get apples from anyone who doesn't spray their trees.

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Apples aren't grown here, so I get the organic apples in the store.

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Spam. I just can't do it...

I know a guy who loves fish head soup, no can do.

I agree... I refuse to eat cat food!

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I avoid food from China and most produce/ fresh foods from walmart, I avoid non organic corn products. I avoid non-organic seeds for our garden and mass produced meat we buy less meat so we can afford the natural stuff from the local butcher. I also avoid milk from RSBT treated cows. If it doesnt have the label "from cows not treated with RSBT" I wont buy it.

ETA: and margarine

Are you saying that Canola oil does not come from the plant known as Brassica napus?

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no canola.
no margarine.
nothing that should be fat, but says fat free or reduced fat.
no soy when possible (it's hard)
no 20 dollar bills, when possible. just my own personal boycott of Andrew Jackson.
absolutely no seafood anymore except caught fresh off NC coast (I have a source).

generally try hard to avoid anything with hydrogenated oil of any kind, and Chinese made products. It's near impossible to find made in USA anything.

I refuse to buy imported canned mushrooms, usually only buy fresh locally grown. I try to buy everything fresh and locally grown. Products like cars, washing-machines, etc are based on energy consumption and consumer reports.

I DO buy canola oil.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/canola.asp

I don't buy Canola because the organic is so darned expensive. I use Olive Oil instead because I can get it so cheap.

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Dale I wondered how long it would take, for you to do some education. Rape is also not a poison plant, I have grazed sheep and cattle on rape. You folks also know that soybeans contain a growth inhibitor? Not to be fed to young critters, probably kids too. Solution heating to a certain temp deactivates the inhibitor enzyme and safe to eat.

Lady cat I would love to know where to buy cheap olive oil.

Uhhh, yes. And it also comes from brassica rapa. And this does not mean it produces rapeseed oil. Canola is a different type of oil, is this hard to understand? Just as some wheat produces seed suitable for strong bread, and some is only good for feed. Like some flax produces edible oil, and some is for industrial uses. rapeseed had high erucic acid, canola does not.

And BTW, I grow both rapeseed and canola, I know a fair little bit about the plants. I also know that rapeseed is not allowed to be mixed or blended with canola. It is grown in an idntity preserved fashion. Any other questions?