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Permalink Reply by Clive Shepherd on March 26, 2012 at 7:54pm

How can we support this effort? I would be prepared to buy in bulk from Dick Smith if that was viable. This is criminal.  Whatever we can do for our farmers we should do, else there will be none left.

Clive Shepherd

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Permalink Reply by Ian Davies on March 26, 2012 at 8:08pm

My wife bumped into Dick on Sunday & he gave her a couple of tins. Good Betroot & I support him on his stand with this. 

http://www.dicksmithfoods.com.au/product-range

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on March 26, 2012 at 8:18pm

Dammit,  I have been buying Golden Circle beetroot assuming it was Australian grown.  I know the firm is no longer 100% Aussie owned,  but presumed the product was Australian.  The can says "Made in Australia"  no mention of imported products, so what am I buying ?

 

I won't, on principal,  buy Woolies Select brand,  as they are slowly but surely getting rid of Australian products for the imported ones.  I never go to Aldi,  have been in a store once and hated it.

 

I really fear for the growers in this country.  I wish Aussies would stand up against these bloody supermarket chains and boycott their own brands.  Maybe then they would wake up.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Joanne Rea on March 27, 2012 at 5:54pm

Not very long ago I was looking for Australian grown frozen vegetables. There was nothing that I could find. I was avoiding NZ because I thought they would be Chinese. What I ended up with was processed in Belguim. I will continue to look for Australian and meanwhile I'll buy some of that beetroot.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on March 27, 2012 at 7:41pm

There has to be something we could do about this -  unfortunately though, people are too apathetic to support a boycott of the big two supermarkets and I don't know what else we could do.

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by noel porter on March 27, 2012 at 8:13pm

good evening mates ,

Support Aussie Farmers ,Thats the catchcry .

Search  the shelves and markets ,There is still Aussie grown there .

Forget the Select label.Its all imported.

Our product is a little more expensive ,But at least we know where it comes from.

You know what really amazes me?

A person will smoke a pack of tailor made ciggies a day at twenty bucks a pack ,and drink a bottle of whisky here and there ,But won,t make the effort to pay a little more for Aussie grown product .

Where is the commonsense .?

Good evening and most of all .

NEVER SURRENDER.!

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Permalink Reply by noel porter on March 29, 2012 at 6:55am

Hello Beverley ,

Hope life,s good for you.

I support the aussie product and urge all others to do the same .

if anyone interested googles up Heinz and has a look at their history ,It makes interesting reading .

They began their buyup of competitors and associated food processors years ago ,

It seems that it was inevitable that they would go offshore ,after all they came from the U.S years ago to here when they seen an opportunity ,and now that the lucky country of Aus. is not economically viable ,they all leave us.

It seems that we aussies never ever had a chance in competing with worldwide corporations ,

mainly due to government policy which seemed to favour overseas poorer countries.

Is the government watching and listening to the people .?

I think not .

The world bank .Check out how many corporate people in this country have connections .

Scary.!

Support Aussie Farmers .Buggar the rest of the world.

NEVER SURRENDER.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on March 29, 2012 at 10:39am

Good morning Noel,  I googled Heinz,  and as a result here is a copy of the email I sent on the Contact Us form:

 

I have bought Golden Circle products for many years and have become increasingly concerned about from where the pineapple, beetroot, and other fruit and vegetable products are now being sourced .    I have checked the cans which say "Made in Australia", but  don't mention whether it's just the cans that are made in Australia and whether the CONTENTS  are  Australian fruit and veg. or not. 

This is not good enough "Mr Heinz", we want our local producers supported and  we want locally grown products,  not those sourced from Asia,  and we want the information readily available on the products.

 

 Label your cans accordingly please.

 

Mrs J.  Courtney

 

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Permalink Reply by Linda Campion on March 29, 2012 at 11:49pm

So what is the answer, do we go to the supermarkets armed with an AusBuy booklet and read it as we walk down the aisles?  I don't want to buy Chinese rubbish; we are already having them buy up our farms without FIRB approval; now we have to eat their crappy food as well?  Not me.

Jan Courtney said:

Good morning Noel,  I googled Heinz,  and as a result here is a copy of the email I sent on the Contact Us form:

 

I have bought Golden Circle products for many years and have become increasingly concerned about from where the pineapple, beetroot, and other fruit and vegetable products are now being sourced .    I have checked the cans which say "Made in Australia", but  don't mention whether it's just the cans that are made in Australia and whether the CONTENTS  are  Australian fruit and veg. or not. 

This is not good enough "Mr Heinz", we want our local producers supported and  we want locally grown products,  not those sourced from Asia,  and we want the information readily available on the products.

 

 Label your cans accordingly please.

 

Mrs J.  Courtney

 

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on March 30, 2012 at 5:20am

Do as I did, write to the food suppliers and supermarkets and tell them you are not satisfied.

Woolworths is the worst offender,  your Ausbuy guide would be useless there as they have discarded most of the brand name goods and replaced them with their own Select brand - made from Australian and IMPORTED products.   Don't buy them.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Linda Campion 5 hours ago

 

So what is the answer, do we go to the supermarkets armed with an AusBuy booklet and read it as we walk down the aisles?  I don't want to buy Chinese rubbish; we are already having them buy up our farms without FIRB approval; now we have to eat their crappy food as well?  Not me.

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hutcho on April 8, 2012 at 4:38pm

I heard about the government advising people to buy generic brands on the local radio this morning.

Here it is in print - Courier Mail:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/food-body-slams-home-brand-push/...

As we do not use generics such as Select, Homebrand etc. to put our few lousy bob into the Australian industry, I would expect a lot of other people would do the same thing.

Add the "Certification" of foods to the above, makes for another attack on our rural industries.

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on April 8, 2012 at 4:55pm

Hi Jeff

That article should have been on the front page, the public need to be made aware of just how much this Socialist Government are attacking Australia.

Jeff Hutcho said:

I heard about the government advising people to buy generic brands on the local radio this morning.

Here it is in print - Courier Mail:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/food-body-slams-home-brand-push/...

As we do not use generics such as Select, Homebrand etc. to put our few lousy bob into the Australian industry, I would expect a lot of other people would do the same thing.

Add the "Certification" of foods to the above, makes for another attack on our rural industries.

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