Australia has been experiencing an outbreak of Hepatitis A brought into the country in frozen berries imported from China. The berries were processed and packed in Shandong Province which has a high level of pollution from a number of sources.
Yesterday I bought a packet of Salt and Pepper Squid to have as a snack. It was bought from one of the two big players in the grocery market. Tasted good, but as I read the info on the side of the pack I found that the squid were from New Zealand, sent to China and processed and packed there.
I am unsure as how much extra they would have cost if they were processed and packaged in NZ or even Australia? I would pay the extra.
Recently I have been buying bananas grown at Carnarvon, 909 kilometres North of Perth, Western Australia. They are about half the size of Queensland bananas and often don’t look as good as Qld bananas, but they are sweeter and have softer flesh which I have come to prefer. A few days ago Cyclone Olwyn destroyed all the Carnarvon banana crops and it is going to be up to 24 months before more Carnarvon bananas are available. Damn!
Pic from Farm Weekly
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