Some of us love our designer labels. We buy premium brand shoes, premium brand clothing and well known premium perfumes and handbags. BUT .. We also look buy the cheapest food we can for our children to eat. That doesnt make sense. Think about this:- The ONLY Australian manufacturer of frozen Australian grown vegetables (Simplot Australia) is not far from closing because a number of the other well known Australian brands have moved their plants to New Zealand in order to capture the Chinese vegetable market where they market via New Zealand to Australian tables (without the food being labelled specifically as Chinese) and Simplot is finding it hard to compete. This was shown on the program Landline on the ABC (Sunday 15/9). SHOULD SIMPLOT CLOSE, THIS MEANS THAT NO AUSTRALIAN GROWN FROZEN VEGETABLES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ALL AND WE WILL BE RELYING ON FOOD GROWN TOTALLY OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA. For a number of reasons this is not a good situation. 1. As most people know, other countries do not necessarily have the strict guidelines for growing their vegetables that Australia has and by buying Australian we can be sure that lethal chemicals that may be used in other countries will not be used on Australian vegetables. 2. We would be keeping Australians in jobs. This means Australian Farmers and the people living in country towns would be assured of work. We have lost far too many jobs to other countries and it is time to fight back. There is no such thing as a level playing field. The level playing field is nothing more than political balderdash! 3. If ever the world became unstable during a war or because of terrorists, we would not be able to feed ourselves. It is imperative that we all support these Australian brands selling good Australian vegetable products (via Simplot). Birdseye Edgell Next time you shop, please think about the future of Australian food and our farmers!
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:44:32 +0000
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