Likely you have consumed more if you are a vegetarian. The wheat gluten is in fake turkey products, tofu-like products, etc.
We buy gluten flour by the pound since we make all our own bread. Called up Winco (chain store in NW where we buy it in bulk) to find out where they get it. Answer:
Bob's Red Mill, in Portland Oregon. Called them up:
All their wheat gluten and all flour products are from Kansas. At least the gluten was, now I'm getting info mixed up with Giusto's. Called them too. All their flour is US grown.
We recently ordered from the natural food store 25# of mung beans and buckwheat groats. To our shock, once we got them home we saw "product of China" on them both, and supposedly "organic". They were both seriously bad quality. After the news about the poison pet food, we threw them all away.
Nothing from China ever touches our lips. Knowingly. I've read a few places that China has a lot of grains right now, stored for a while, and is dumping on the market cheap.
I made calls to another wholesale natural food distributor and all the buckwheat and mung they have is from China. I have never, ever seen these products of Chinese origin before.
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