Just remember that when you buy from China you are supporting their demand for natural resources that we are all getting so upset about! They don't have environmental laws regarding the use of those resources or for the products they are creating. At least they know how to take care of their lead "problem", just export it to us!

On the farm goods, I try to stay away from the animal type goods just to support the local fishermen and livestock types. Without regulations in place you don't know what type of insecticides, hormones, antibiotics, etc. might be in the imported foods. Fruits and Veggies at least make sense when they aren't in season in this hemisphere.

Wirginia/West Virginia have some pretty fine apple orchards. We have been picking for a few years now. Before that it was the peach orchards and strawberries in North Carolina!