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 Stories About: China AND food AND Mexico
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Costs of convenience
While demand for frozen food booms, processing plants head to China and Mexico |
Tom Philpott |
11 Aug 2006 |
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| Farmers markets may be fashionable, but the U.S. appetite for convenience food remains insatiable. 'Retail sales of frozen foods in the U.S. in 2005 reached a record $29 billion, up from nearly $26 billion in 2001,' declares a news report. Meanwhile, the U.S. food-processing giants are shuttering domestic plants and heading to Mexico and China, where labor and produce costs are cheaper than California's central coast, once the U.S. frozen food capital. In an age of b ... |
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| Topics: China, food, Mexico (all these topics) |
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