The Communists are killing off our own Food Supply
Jun 8, 2024 15:47:27 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Jun 8, 2024 15:47:27 GMT 8
Labor’s hatred of fruit farmers opens a can of worms
Vikki Campion
There should be no reason Australian peaches and pears on local shelves are dearer than the imported alternative in the can next to them – but our brilliance has created the perfect recipe for food insecurity.
This week, SPC told growers to mulch nearly half their peach crop and almost two-thirds of their pears because Woollies want fruit for half as much from countries paying slave-labour rates, running on cheap power, with none of the environmental restrictions we burden small family farms with.
Australian-grown and canned SPC peaches cost $5.30 at Woolies yesterday, while the same size can of South African peaches wearing the Woolworths home label cost $2.80. What is it about that 10,000km journey across the Indian Ocean that is cheaper than picking them from a tree in the Goulburn Valley and canning them right here?
As pear growers rip out trees, the cheapest canned pears on the shelf are grown in Argentina, a country suffering a 57 per cent poverty rate, flown to Thailand, a country primarily run on cheap gas and coal, shipped to Australia, trucked to our markets and – after all this travel – is still vastly cheaper than canning our own fruit.
This is the perverse result of a federal Government taking water from irrigators, forcing manufacturers to use expensive part-time power plants (wind and solar), and smothering family farms with red and green tape.
Add to this a major supermarket being distracted as a cheerleader for the Voice instead of delivering affordable groceries, who blames mum at the checkout for prioritising keeping her kids fed over supporting Australian farms.
Vikki Campion
There should be no reason Australian peaches and pears on local shelves are dearer than the imported alternative in the can next to them – but our brilliance has created the perfect recipe for food insecurity.
This week, SPC told growers to mulch nearly half their peach crop and almost two-thirds of their pears because Woollies want fruit for half as much from countries paying slave-labour rates, running on cheap power, with none of the environmental restrictions we burden small family farms with.
Australian-grown and canned SPC peaches cost $5.30 at Woolies yesterday, while the same size can of South African peaches wearing the Woolworths home label cost $2.80. What is it about that 10,000km journey across the Indian Ocean that is cheaper than picking them from a tree in the Goulburn Valley and canning them right here?
As pear growers rip out trees, the cheapest canned pears on the shelf are grown in Argentina, a country suffering a 57 per cent poverty rate, flown to Thailand, a country primarily run on cheap gas and coal, shipped to Australia, trucked to our markets and – after all this travel – is still vastly cheaper than canning our own fruit.
This is the perverse result of a federal Government taking water from irrigators, forcing manufacturers to use expensive part-time power plants (wind and solar), and smothering family farms with red and green tape.
Add to this a major supermarket being distracted as a cheerleader for the Voice instead of delivering affordable groceries, who blames mum at the checkout for prioritising keeping her kids fed over supporting Australian farms.
If the recipe they are cooking up is to destroy our food security, it seems that Labor has the method and measurements just right.