RIP Australian grown vegies - please read

*Subject:* FW: FW: Australian grown vegies - please read


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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 NOAUSTRALIAN GROWNFROZEN
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.
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