National foods has decided it is only going to pay Tasmanian Dairy farmers less than 21 cents a litre for their milk. While it costs a dairy farmer about 39 cents a litre to produce a litre of milk.
Documents tendered at the senate inquiry in Canberra showed that National foods was increasing prices to wholesale consumers of it’s milk using the excuse that farm gate prices were rising, when in fact National foods was cutting the price it pays to farmers.
Now normally farmers don’t go out and physically protest about poor working conditions, they just get on with the job and do the best they can. Our farmers must be terribly desperate to ask consumers to boycott Pura Milk. So as a sign of solidarity I certainly will stop buying Pura milk.
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That does seem really wrong doesn’t it!
It doesn’t seem fair. They seem to have a monopoly. So why don’t the farmers set up their own milk processing plant – as a co-op. Sell milk directly to the consumer.
I haven’t bought Pura milk in a while, simply for this reason.
Damn! Pura Light Start is the milk I buy. It’s the only one I like the taste of in my coffee and cereal. I only have one litre a week or sometimes it lasts me 10 days. Can I be excused from the boycott?
That’s really shocking. I am lucky enough to be able to buy milk direct from a group of farmers. It’s a little bit more expensive but I get to talk to the farmers (and their wives and kids) so I know where it’s really come from. Also, I think it tastes 100 times better. I will make sure I avoid Pura if I get caught short though.
I’ve never bought pura milk. We get a few cartons of longlife milk because we cant be bothered trudging to the shop all the time. So does that count? I’ll avoid pura if I go on an emergency milk mission. (You know when you DESPERATELY need a coffee or tea, or in my case a milkshake.)
The farmers always seem to get the worst deal, while they’re the ones doing all the investments and the work. Farmers in Belgium have also been protesting over this these past few weeks. If I could, I’d much prefer buying my milk from the farmers themselves, instead of the local supermarket.
Good on you Kim for bringing this up!
No more Pura for this family.
Never have bought Pura except as a last resort – always bought Betta (or Ashgrove – yes they make milk as well as lovely cheese – or Pynegana – which comes with the cream on the top….mmmm)
Multinational Kirin holdings should also be treated like dirt as they own National foods – get on it guys – the farmers have coped with drought, floods, power outages for over a week – which meant they couldn’t milk or if they did then they had to throw the milk away because it couldn’t be refrigerated – and their cows dried off or got mastitis so they are faced with vets bills as well – lets support Aussie farmers!
OK _ Rant finished now!
I heard something vaguely about this a few weeks ago but thanks for clarifying it.
I’ll leave Pura alone. Thanks.
I buy Capel Farms milk and dairy products. They are a local co-operative. Very rare for me to buy other types but will avoid Pura like the plague on the rare occasion I do.
Same thing happened in the UK. Where do manufacturers think their raw materials will come from once they have driven all of our farmers out of business? China? Not after their dairy scandals!