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Originally Posted by danzvtil
This whole saga I have to say has gotten embarrassing. All the media coverage and chatter on the internet has turned it into a buy aussie issue- "buy aussie milk and save our farmers!"
Fact-all the fresh milk (and the vast bulk of value added products like cheese/yoghurt etc) in our supermarkets comes from aussie milk.
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Here's an image getting around various sites, it details Aussie-made
and owned, as well as Aussie-made (but owned overseas)
As for all the discussion in other posts about how $1/L Colesworths milk gives the same return to the processors / farmers as $3/L branded milk, consider this:
Every time you buy a $1/L home-brand milk you're bolstering the duopoly's statistics on $1/L vs $3/L milk and thus add more clout to their contract purchasing power when it comes to renewal time. The retailers will use the excuse that they're being good corporate citizens by slashing their own profit margins to supposedly help the poor farmers out (and that the "greedy consumer" is hurting the duopoly's profit margins though buying the $1/L milk). If the consumers all shift to home-brand milk it helps justify the ongoing action of the retailers to rip the farmers off.