Dairy Farmers sold to Japanese Interests (very quietly…)
Posted on November 19, 2009 by by robtheailean
Well, despite a raft of protests a few years ago, Dairy Farmers was quietly sold off to overseas owners recently. Nothing was noticed in CT about it (not that it should be a surprise) – I found out from the milkman, who has signed on with a new group called AFD: Australian Farmers Direct. Apparently 95% of Australia’s milk production is now in foreign hands. Does this concern you? I know it does me! How can you truly manage essential food services when they are held by foreign interests (often a dusty post box in a Cayman Islands post office). If a problem is bad enough, they will just pack up and disappear – and too bad about the repercussions on the public who consumed their products…
If you are not bothered, just google China and poisoned toothpaste in Cuba, China and Melamine in Milk for just a sample of what foreign ownership of our food chain really means.
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“Apparently 95% of Australia’s milk production is now in foreign hands.”
What a joke, and I thought it was all Australia made, I can’t believe that.
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95% of Australian milk production would refer to fresh milk production. There,s much more milk used for export products ,Australian owned Murray Goulburn Dairy Co-op are a very big player in this market.
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