PLEASE PASS THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, BUT AS A COURTESY TO THOSE
WHO HAVE FORWARDED IT ALREADY, PLEASE REMOVE ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES LISTED AND
FORWARD IT TO YOUR OWN CONTACTS.
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 doesn't
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.
3. If ever the world became unstable regarding wartime 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.
Forwarded by me in the interests of a sustainable Australia. Please send it
on.
