Gillards anti-protectionist stance costing Australia BIG $$$

[mellie]

And Mantra, Australia's seafood standard ranks among the highest world-wide.
Pollution (environmental factors) isn't the only thing compromising the quality and safety of seafood world wide, the use of banned antibiotics may in fact prove to be far more deadly.
Pity more than 70% of our catch is exported for global elites to enjoy, whereby we are left with imported dregs, less than 5% being tested.

"I can't see the logic in selling our produce overseas so cheaply, yet to buy the same product in Australia it costs double."-Mantra

Additionally, Biological Testing has ceased the
approved signatory process and revised the
requirements for the management of control
cultures. These changes are currently detailed in
NATA Policy Circulars 34 and 35.
Biological Testing continues to operate under
the Deed of Agreement with (AQIS) for facilities
testing meat destined for the export market.


WTO deems it globally advantageous for Australia to surrender her "green-clean" top-shelf seafood to nations who's markets rely on foreignly imported produce of a much higher standard to that which they produce then export themselves.

They export their contaminated rubbish to us under MoU, we then in turn export 70% of our prized catch to them and their trading partners, this and establish them as a regional trading hub.

We ignorantly consume seafood from Asia, they themselves wont ingest, preferring to import the very best from us, and due to Australians overall apathy and misplaced trust in our governments health regulations ( where food testing and labeling is concerned) we just don't question it, as we greedily gobble up contaminated produce/waste from nations who would rather consume our produce than their own. And understandably so.

Honk Kong eat a lot of seafood, (most consume seafood several or more times per week) their demand is higher than ours, so accordingly, WTO, deem them more worthy as valued global customers.

So it works out better to sell them more seafood at a reduced cost, than to sell it back to ourselves for the same price.




The people amending our food standards Acts here in Australia are generally those who can afford to by organic, antibiotic free top-shelf produce, kosher for their own families, so what difference does it make to them?


You see Mantra, under a GALP government, some animals are more equal than others.
Ignorance is not bliss.... it wont be long before your post code will determine your life expectancy.

http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science ... pa5110.cfm

http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resou ... _Japan.pdf

Yet read this...

Japan Acknowledges Radioactive Beef Sold to Markets, Restaurants -July 2011


http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asi ... 78143.html

[mellie]

Thus I conclude, the safest and best way to enjoy Australian produce is to either catch or grow it yourself, or buy it whilst holidaying in any of our 'esteemed' MoU trading partners nations, Hong Kong, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China...

My friend currently residing in Saudi Arabia advised he is consuming Australian seafood he never knew Australia had....ie Killer Prawns the size of lobsters.

Here, have a chat to some Aussey -expats, ask them why they prefer Australian produce more in Saudi Arabia this and prefer to work over there also.

http://www.expat-blog.com/en/nationalit ... di-arabia/

We are the best kept joke.

hahah

[mellie]

http://www.australianseafoodexports.com/aboutus.htm

http://www.australianseafoodexports.com/

Put simply, Australians, as individual consumers cant compete with a global markets demand for our produce, nor can expect prices to remain competitive locally unless we import , so we must settle for second best...the fish John West himself rejects from developing nations polluted waterways.

I would like to tie Julia Gillard to a chair and force feed her imported basa, ( aka Antibiotic laced Mekong catfish)...I reckon she'd start gagging before it even touched her lips.

The name Basa was chosen by the Australian Fish Names Committee as the approved Standard, knowing we would cringe at the prospect of eating a dirty old catfish renowned for harbouring pollutants, heavy metals microbes and disease, hence the requirement for antibiotics before they arrive.

Basa sounds a little like Bass (an Australian native fish) doesn't it.

Just a coincidence you think?

Or a clever marketing ploy to sell us the muck not even their own nation will consume, hence they export it to us to process into fish fingers, which we normally do off-shore anyway.

So this crap is being caught in one country, processed and or packed in another, then shipped to Australia for consumption.

Why don't lables tell it like it is....

Product of Malaysia, China, Thailand and several other countries before it hits our shelves.

[mellie]

No fins, no scales= NO GOOD!

My grandmother was right to remove a rainbow trout from my refrigerator (I had purchased from a supermarket) when I was pregnant with my son.

I now know why.

WoW!

[mellie]

[mellie]

Officials of Kashiwa city in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, said Saturday they found a high level of radioactive cesium in soil of city-owned land. The officials told local media they will conduct a full-scale check with the science ministry on Monday to identify the cause of the contamination. The ministry, meanwhile, didn't rule out the possibility that the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant is the source of the radiation. Up to 276,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram of soil was detected 30 centimeters below the surface on Friday after an abnormal level of airborne radiation was found earlier in the week. This new hot spot was found by a resident strolling in the area carrying a dosimeter. After he notified the authorities, officials of Kashiwa city and Chiba Prefecture took their own measurements and recorded 57.5 microsieverts per hour. Calls are mounting on the Japanese government to set radiation decontamination measures following a spate of discoveries of radiation "hot spots" in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Tokyo's Adachi Ward detected a level of radiation of 3.99 microsieverts per hour next to the machinery room of an elementary school pool on Oct. 17, following measurements taken independently by a resident.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?page ... -32786-JPN

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It's Ok, Gillard has it all under control, says the risk is so minimal, we don't need to consider imposing restrictions on Japanese imported food stuffs entering Australia...or changing travel advice warnings. ...Until, the whole world knows the place is contaminated.

Only Japans local media know at present, so it must mean it's safe until they tell ours.

So.....

Lets book a holiday.

On the upside, terminally ill cancer patients from 3rd world countries around the world are lining up at Japans boarder for their complimentary radiation therapy. No GP consult or referral necessary.