By TONY MOBILIFONITIS
COLES and Woolworths is like Coke and Pepsi, and that’s what they would feed the Australian population instead of milk, if the could get away with it for a good profit. In fact “good profits” is why the supermarket shelves run by this corporate cabal have long been stacked with fizzy drinks and other chemical-laden junk food products.
But now there’s a new “sustainable” food trend. As explained by the dumbed-down female voice in the maggot milk video above, “insects don’t damage the environment like livestock” and “don’t produce greenhouse gases”. This folks, is the stupid but approved global narrative, so sorry farmers, take a hint, you’re the bad guys now and the toffs who inhabit the Coles and Woolies boardrooms know it.
So, regardless of the fact that the corporate elite feast on the finest organic cuisine at the best Sydney and Melbourne restaurants on a daily basis, the only question is when, not if, maggot milk and other such delights hit the supermarket shelves.
Maybe it’s time for more Australians to get behind Farmers Pick, a network of 50-plus local producers, who run a direct-to-consumer model where imperfect but fresh, seasonal produce boxes (no milk at this stage) are delivered to customers for up to 30% less than the usual cost from the supermarkets.
The job of the Coles-Woolies management is mainly to keep shareholders, not farmers, happy. But in recent years these pampered, corporate automatons, who live in the rarified atmosphere of multiple board room meetings, are about pushing the political agenda of the World Economic Forum. They earn brownie points and improved credit ratings, through their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
Readers should check out the bios of the Woolies and Coles boards of directors, who are about equally divided, of course, between male and female, but shockingly lacking obvious LGBTQ or non-white representation! They all boast corporate ladder-climbing credentials and some of them annually jet off to Davos to share their dull corporate insights into how they can increase and consolidate market share diversely, equitably and inclusively.
These people rarely have original thoughts, so they make a grand show of signalling their corporate virtue for Pride Month, Gay Week, Trans Tuesdays and Earth Day. And don’t dare forget that carbon footprint. CEOs get a warm inner glow reporting how their HQ and branch offices achieved net zero. Sorry boys, it’s only soy or maggot milk in the fridge from now on.
Maybe the new Woolies CEO, Amanda Bardwell, who can at least boast of once working as a checkout chick and shelf stacker, might be able to bring some reality back into the board room. Mind you, she’s on a tidy $2.15m base salary and shareholders, e.g. BlackRock and its WEF associates, will be watching closely.
Meanwhile the real milk sections at their supermarkets are shrinking and filling up with a diminishing number of brands because these same corporate assassins have taken it upon themselves to screw the independent Australian dairy farmer into oblivion. We know the Davos class are happy to see this happen because it’s “environmentally sustainable”.
This month the ABC, to its credit, ran another of a series of stories highlighting the continuing war on dairy farmers. “Milk production has been in a downward spiral for more than 20 years and the dairy processing sector is also struggling as shoppers turn to cheaper imported cheese and butter,” they reported.
“A two-litre carton of milk now costs at least $3.10 and a 500-gram packet of grated cheese has a $7 price tag. While most of us are baulking at the increased cost of keeping a family fed, dairy farmers who produce some of that food are copping a 10-16 per cent pay cut.”
It’s increasingly evident that these corporate cucks actually want to get rid of dairy products altogether and replace them with mass-produced GM soy and insect-based “alternatives” because Bill Gates and his Davos cohorts are already manufacturing fake meat and insect protein in sites across the planet.
Coles, for instance, which was selling Australia’s highest quality quality Jersey cow milk from the pastures of Gippsland has now decided to remove that milk from the shelves because the farmers who produce that milk, Sally Jones and Steve Ronalds, aren’t prepared to give Coles a bigger profit margin, meaning less for the farmers and their employees.
In February this year Woolworths dumped Norco’s milk from all of its 150 Sydney stores. “Norco is the lifeblood of a lot of farmers in Queensland and New South Wales and without Norco the dairy industry would be in a hell of a worse state,” farmers’ advocate Joe Bradley of EastAUSmilk told the ABC. “This is the supermarket’s way of controlling the processor.”
Exactly, this supermarket duopoly that acts more like a monopoly, is fixated on control of production and markets. If it wasn’t for a few actual competitors like Aldi and IGA, this duopoly would have Australians maxing out their Coles and Woolies credit cards just to pay for the weekly basics.
Even government and Labor circles are wringing their hands about this duopoly with half a dozen different inquiries into supermarket supply chains and price gouging, including one by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
One such inquiry commissioned by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and run by former ACCC chairman Allan Fells finding price gouging across all industries, including supermarkets, and a lack of competition leading to exploitative practices.