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I carefully check the label and try to only buy Australian made 100% food.

I never buy any food ever from China.

It's one of the richest food cultures in the world. If you've never tried sichuan peppercorn on mapo tofu, or pickled mustard greens on noodle dishes, I think you're in for a real treat.

These do involve foods from China though..

You can use safe Australian ingredients to cook the recipe.

Where in Australia grows Sichuan peppercorns? They're almost exclusively grown in China and the general regions nearby to my knowledge.

You can grow them yourself. I had no effort producing more than I can use in only a few years time.

That's great but not an option for everyone.

They have some really good foods. They also have some really unethical foods. When we only have a broad brush...

Eh, tofu is hardly something that anyone is worse of not having.

the famed triple negative (also tofu is healthy and delicious)

What's that going to help you with?

Ever been to Innisfail? Have you seen them fly small Cessna's over the banana fields and absolutely drench them with pesticides?

They do this with all the crop fields in Aus.

Does that meaningfully restrict which foods / ingredients you can get?

No. Australia produces vast variety of food everything you could want to eat aside from more exotic stuff.

In terms of fresh meat and vegetables, it's pretty much all grown/produced in Australia. Anything canned / dried is often imported though. Things like rice or coffee beans you technically can buy Australian grown but you'd have to go out of your way to find it.

In Australia, tea and spices are imported predominantly from Asian countries.

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