Well, that would certainly put a new meaning to the phrase "Happy Meal".
However, this was the current issue which is currently getting headlines ....
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/b...-1225889978138
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Charlie its a open forum i can say what ever i like as stated earlier its a email that was sent to me so i dont really care about the authoritys as for being very afraid get a grip.
Well, that would certainly put a new meaning to the phrase "Happy Meal".
However, this was the current issue which is currently getting headlines ....
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/b...-1225889978138
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Oooh no, I would be worried if I were you, Indy, distributing material like that.
The best thing that you should do to protect yourself is to wipe your computer hard disk right away. That should stop the authorities finding that sort of material on your machine.
If the "rational" argument is a protectionist one against international trade , because that seems to be what you are suggesting when you advocate buying only Australian produce, then you are advocating destroying the Australian economy and lifestyle.
Some facts about the importance of the Vietnamese people to Australia are listed below. (Source: http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/vietnam/vietnam_brief.html )
Australia's merchandise exports to Vietnam in 2008-09 totalled A$1.2 billion.
Significant Australian export items to Vietnam in 2008-09 included wheat, copper, aluminium and cereal preparations.
In 2008-09, Vietnam's merchandise exports to Australia totalled A$4.3 billion. Oil exports constituted more that 70 per cent of Vietnam's total merchandise exports during this period. Other significant items were furniture (A$111m), gold (A$100m),and fruit and nuts (A$81m).
Two-way services trade between Australia and Vietnam in 2008-09 totalled more than A$1.3 billion. Services exports to Vietnam during this period were worth A$736 million. Education-related exports remain Australia's single largest services export, worth A$591 million in 2008-09. Services imports from Vietnam in te same period were valued at A$639 million, dominated by recreational travel (A$472m).
This data suggests that Vietnamese fish exports to Australia are a non-event in the over all scheme of trade. Create an embargo on any trade items and you are likely to find yourself paying more for petrol for your boat and having to find more cash to send your Aussie kids to an Aussie university because of the loss of paying Vietnamese students.
Nah - we need healthy two way trade with Vietnam. Creating odious unproven rumours about Vietnamese produce does a dis-service to everyone.
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Good info, Greg.
Now let's compare that with the Aussie situation.
Oh look, here's one...
"December 4, 2005
Banned: Sydney Harbour prawns too toxic to eat
The Government banned catching prawns in Sydney Harbour yesterday after tests found high levels of dioxin in prawns caught last week.
Dioxin can cause cancer and other health problems and Primary Industry Minister Ian Macdonald said urgent tests were being done on harbour fish to see if they were also carrying the poison.
It is the first time harbour prawns have been tested for dioxins and Mr Macdonald said the industrial toxic waste byproduct could have been present in Sydney's prawns for decades.
The Sydney Harbour king prawn is smaller and sweeter than most prawns and is regarded as a delicacy.
Tests on prawns caught last week found dioxin levels were three to four times the European Standard, which is becoming the accepted global measure for dioxin in food."
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...22146952.html#
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Go into the forum search engine and type Pacific Dory and see what others think about it. I've eaten it not knowing what it is and I found it disgusting as I thought pacific it was a fish from the Pacific Ocean stupid me as the Mekong river is no where near the Pacific Ocean.
I look at everything I buy and it must be from Australia or I don't buy it.
I like roasted peanuts (doesn't everyone) and I saw bags of them in Woolies looked at the label Produce of China, I now having to buy garlic paste as the fresh garlic Woolies sell is Product of China, I gave tin tuna away as it is all Thailand product.
I hate the local and imported label as I don't know what is local and what is imported.
Aha. A genuine hippie who lives in a shack and does not own any material goods.
That's 'cos pretty well all material goods these days have at least some imported element.
If the product exactly says "Product of Australia" it is truly completely Aussie. If it is labelled something else, it is not truly Aussie.
BTW, where did you get your 100% Aussie made computer made with Aussie made semiconductors etc that you are now using? I was sure that the last Aussie semiconductor manufacturer disappeared with the closure of Fairchild Semiconductor in Australia circa 1970.
I'd reckon that at least 95% of the stuff that you buy has an overseas element in it.
Few people could afford any other situation.
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Sorry I thought you would have got the message as I was referring to food.
Yes I have a lot of other Chinese stuff but I only use Australian food.
its getting bad if i don't catch it i don't eat it i grow alot of my own veges now and by this time next year ill be growing all we eat i think allot of people are realy getting in to growing their own food now days,like they used to back in the old days and the flavor is much better, more fishing time gone.
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i wont eat seafood unless im sure its not farmed in asia/eastern africa.
tanzanian perch is just as bad as basa. also, if you think the above info is bad, have a look into prawns farmed in asia and marketed here as "fresh"
production date: 1994 use by date : 2014
their powdered food's main ingredient is a steroid used in race horses, and the farmers routinely have cancerous tumours removed from their lower legs after years of wading in their prawn ponds.
MMM MMM MMM YUMMY.
With next to none foreign imported food being thoroughly tested by the Aussie authorities I wouldn't exactly trust any marketing speil.
Even worse is that so little of Aussie food for local consumption is tested.
I wish factual orignlables of all fresh food was law so people would understand just how much food that is old and transported round the world they eat. Enforcing it and huge penalties would help but we have a weak system and our politiicians love signing all these so called free trade agreements but just don't understand teh pother countries don't play fair and there is no world police enforcer.
Grow some , Buy local eat fresh and learn where your food comes from and what is in it. It takes time to do it thoughand may not be teh cheapest.
Cant believe some of you guys are defending catfish! and imported catfish at that!
. Me personally I dont care if the fish are hand raised by 18y old naked virgins and fed caviar for lunch or fed their dead offspring for dinner in a fetid swamp.
Its CATFISH!.. And I bet most of you blokes chuck back every catfish you catch.
I hate the fact that fish agents do a simple name change and people swarm over it and your average joe has no idea he is buying catfish.
Then again if your average Joe is eating Basa. Means less demand for top quality aussie fish. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing?
Mate, I am just teasing you. I knew that you were talking about food.
People are free to choose what they prefer for whatever reason.
I recall being a kid in western Queensland and thinking that the freshwater catfish that we caught there were pretty good. However, it is true that I have never kept a seafaring one.
The issue for me is not about the type of fish per se; it is simply about the morality issue of spreading such vitriolic propaganda touting Aussie seafood as being of pristine quality and the Mekong Delta stuff as being tantamount to weapons grade biological poison.
From the cited info from Pinhead about the very high quality of the Himalayan snow melt waters in which the Basa are raised plus the cited info that I offered about the very high toxin levels in Sydney Harbour prawns, it seems to me that there may well be a plausible argument that the Basa would be a much healthier food than fish caught downstream from Australia's industrialised cities and towns.
In this latter category, I would place anything caught in and around Sydney, Moreton Bay and probably anything caught around the Barrier Reef which has been getting run-off of fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides from cane farms for decades.
I am happy for factual material to be published supporting a cause. I just don't like seeing such unsubstantiated low grade propaganda which treats us like gullible fools.
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