Hiding prefecture of origin on food products

[Hijinx]

Has anyone noticed the trend to label all domestically produced food just as kokusan? Previously, the prefecture of origin was written on labels. And now when you look up in the corner above the meat section, written in small type are the radiation levels for some of the meat--it's all from Touhoku. There is definitely some order from above to have supermarkets use only the domestic origin on labels to try and increase the sales of Touhoku products.

[Mike Oxlong]

I'll have to take a look and see. Rice cooker does much of the grocery shopping. I have noticed the local supermarkets are offering both price deals and points deals for Tohoku rice.

[Russell]

Time to raise my own animals.

Actually, a friend of mine does exactly that.

[wagyl]

Time to raise my own animals.

Actually, a friend of mine does exactly that.

I often wonder where that process ends.
"Last week, Alphonse was in the cooking pot, this month the freezer is full of Daisy. But Daisy breathed air that the winds had carried from the Chinese factory complexes..."
You have to let go of control at some point.
That said, I am just coming into the end of the season where the majority of my vegetables were from out the back door and eaten while still metabolising. But that is just because they taste better, and it is a fun hobby which gets me in the outdoors, not because I fear that I am harming myself by eating commercial product.

I haven't been looking closely, but I still see prefecture of origin here. Not all the time, but it never was all the time. I haven't sensed a reduction in prefecture of origin and increase in generic "domestic" labelling.

[Hijinx]

Time to raise my own animals.

Actually, a friend of mine does exactly that.

Not a polite way to refer to someone else's kids

[J.A.F.O]

Yea my resident rice cooker goes through most the produce with some serious due diligence. Nothing from china, brazil, or anything even close to the radiashun prefectures... but then will be the first one to say "Lets go to Macu's" (McDonalds) I look at her like she's crazy because she knows I won't touch the stuff. She's full of all kinds of little hypocrisies that I guess make sense to the japanese.

Then again I poison myself with alcohol everyday ... Meh.

[Mike Oxlong]

Beers before Yokosuka, eh.

[J.A.F.O]

Strangely enough this thing in yokosuka has got me and the rice cooker into a serious discussion about me going back to law school.

Funny how when your start actually considering heavy changes in your life all kinds of things just show up on the table.