On that note, have you taken a good look at the country of origin of stuff you're regularly buying?
We've been recently very surprised to find that:
* Sunrice (Australia) now import from Thailand + India only IIRC
* Practically all cooking oil now comes from Malaysia... But god knows if some of that actually secretly comes from China now! (For record, China had scandals involving "recycled" cooking oil scraped from filthy back alleys... and/or other ones involving cooking oil transported in petroloum tankers!!!)
* Equally disturbing is how we're increasingly having no local garlic across increasingly many months (I.e. used to be only summer, but now winter too), with only the Chinese produced ones (looking way too artifically uniform)/beyond stocked!
* Oh, and Nashi pears have long ended up being mostly China only too, despite us previously having some local supply (oh, and the supermarkets often mislabel these!)
We've been recently very surprised to find that:
* Sunrice (Australia) now import from Thailand + India only IIRC
* Practically all cooking oil now comes from Malaysia... But god knows if some of that actually secretly comes from China now! (For record, China had scandals involving "recycled" cooking oil scraped from filthy back alleys... and/or other ones involving cooking oil transported in petroloum tankers!!!)
* Equally disturbing is how we're increasingly having no local garlic across increasingly many months (I.e. used to be only summer, but now winter too), with only the Chinese produced ones (looking way too artifically uniform)/beyond stocked!
* Oh, and Nashi pears have long ended up being mostly China only too, despite us previously having some local supply (oh, and the supermarkets often mislabel these!)