Trade Liberalization and now an Emissions Trading scheme is leading to Corporate Agriculture at the expense of the family farm in Australia and New Zealand. Its a dangerous trend.
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“A SECOND baby has died from drinking contaminated milk powder in China, after one fatality was confirmed earlier.
the baby formula ended up with dangerous levels of melamine, a chemical used to make plastic and glues.”
The number of babies sickened after drinking contaminated milk powder has risen to about 580, state media reported, citing a senior official.
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The milk processing company Sanlu Group is 43% owned by the giant New Zealand Dairy company Fonterra who first raised concerns about the baby Milk formula in August.
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“Fonterra, which has said it knew of the problem since August, had pressed for a full public recall of all affected products, but had been blocked.”
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ABC’s 4 Corners program in its show “The Price we Pay” covered the dangers of large corporates controlling the food chains.
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STEPHEN LONG: For now though the power is with the giant retailers. Once they control the product, supermarkets can tender out the work to the lowest bidder.
GEOFF CUTLER, RETAIL CONSULTANT: With the home brand business growing, the brand is owned by the retailer so all you’re doing is contract manufacturing and that contract manufacturing could be supplied from anywhere around the world.
REG CLAIRS, WOOLWORTHS CEO 1993-98: And in, who knows, in 10 or 15 years’ time there may be a handful of global manufacturers that win back that power base.
And that’s a frightening thought, that if that occurs in 10 years from now.”
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As home brand grows we have no idea which country and under what conditions the food was grown or processed in.
Baby Formula is an incredibly easy product to ship around the globe.
The idea of big profit hungry multi national corporations controlling our food chain is as Reg Clarris puts it “a frightening thought”.
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What do you think - Have your say!
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Australians are a strange people, they seem to want the best quality at bargain basement prices. DOH!
They don’t support their own people on the land. In the supermarkets, Australians support china, Indonesia, Korea, etc. etc. In what they buy. So, if you people feel you are getting screwed by the the major supermarkets, don’t complain, you are getting what you deserve.
And very soon, in my opinion, you will be paying top dollar for sub-standard imported produce, because Australian producers will be forced to the wall. (out of business) because of YOUR (the publics) buying policies.
God Bless Australia