What is in your icecream?

On May 6, 2012, in the nose, by pauline
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THERE is no reason to assume that the ice cream components are not the same here in Australia as in United Kingdom, so when a recent article in the Daily Mail brought to light some interesting points on what is in our ice cream, it is even more important to read the label.
Victoria Moore journalist at the Daily Mail reveals in her article “The chilling truth about Ice Cream” that “Unilever, who own Walls, Magnum, Carte d’Or and Ben & Jerrys, have applied to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for permission to add to a diet range of frozen fruit ices a protein created using GM technology from the blood of an ocean pout, an eel-like creature that lives in the North Atlantic”.
Read the University of Guelph in Canada’s web site on ice cream and How Stuff Works facts about icecream

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Milk wars further afield

On March 26, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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ON March 12th in the Nose, information about the Milk Wars in Australia was posted. It appears that not just in Australia is the plight of dairy farmers of great concern. Barry Estabrook in his article “A Tale of Two Dairies” in the journal Gastron

omica reports on the current plight and disappearance of dairy farmers in the United States of America. In the United States in 2010 milk is not paying as well as in the 1970, from 650,000 dairy farms in the United States there are only about 54,000, the profit to one corporation has doubled in one year from 30.8 million to 75.3 million dollars. Across the border in Canada there are different systems set in place, read Estabrook’s article

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Milk wars

On March 12, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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ARTICLES on the discount wars on milk are highlighted in The Weekend Australian, 12th March. Natasha Bita, Consumer Editor writes that these discount wars could damage the food chain and farmers and small retailers could be trampled if the grocery giants keep it up. Milk she says is cheaper than bottled water. Lanek Vasek in his article “Price wars will milk rural towns of life” highlights the warning by Kate Carnell, the CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, that rural towns will collapse and parts of the country could be forced to rely on imported or long-life dairy products if major retailers continue to discount milk. Carnell said that “the maintenance of cheaper prices would garner a net negative for the country and consumers”. “It is unsustainable and the impact will simply be that manufacturers will move offshore or close down. Our view is that if companies cease to exist or cease to manufacture in Australia, the fabric of a lot of rural towns will be significantly undermined… it is pretty clear what happens to the town once jobs are no longer there”
Stuart Rintoul in his article “Fourth Generation fears being last” tells the story of dairy farmer Ms Slee’s Yoongarillup home near Busselton, Western Australia. She fears these milk wars will force more farmers to quit the land, “the number of dairy farmers has fallen over the past 12 years from 419 to 165″. Read further

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Milk price wars

On February 17, 2011, in the nose, by pauline
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ABC Breakfast program journalist Cathy van Extel reports on the milk price wars and interviews dairy farmer Ross McInnes who has been involved in the dairy industry for nearly 40 years. McInnes says that “nearly 90% of farms have been affected in the Queensland floods and to have Coles say this price war wont have an ef

fect on dairies, is just utter bullshit”. He says “it is the biggest mongrel act he has ever seen perpetuated on the Queensland dairy industry”. The milk price war will be the final straw on Queensland dairy farmers, read full transcript.

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Slow Food Australia raw milk cheese

On November 5, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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SLOW Food in Australia has launched a public campaign to give Australian artisan cheesemakers the right to produce and consumers to eat Australian raw milk cheese. “We have an opportunity to encourage food diversity, build skills and knowledge and return opportunity to Australia’s rural heartland” said Michael Croft, the public campaign organizeer. Croft said Food Standards Australia New Zealand – the authority responsible for Australian food regulation – is to decide early in j2010 if food standards are to be changed to enable the making and sale of Australian cheese from raw milk. “We would not want to jeopardize our enviable reputation as a ‘clean food’ nation” he said. “But we already allow raw milk hard-curd cheeses from France and Italy to be imported. Why should our artisan cheesemakers be denied the right to make and market Australian cheese from our own raw milk?
Here is the link the online petition
and to a multiple signature petition.
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How the law is slowly killing our food

On November 4, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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MATT Cawood reports in the Rural Press 23 October 2009 Carlo Petrini’s views on how the law is slowly killing our food.

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Mare’s milk

On October 30, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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IN antiquity, mare’s milk was known and used as a daily beverage, appreciated for its delicate nutty flavour and health properties. This article from The Atlantic, ‘Mongolia: land of milk and horses’, highlights the importance of the horse and it’s milk to the cultures of Mongolia. In the late 19th century in the West it was written about as the ‘Milk of Champagne’ and today in North West France mare’s milk is being produced at an organic dairy and is selling at local farmers’ markets.

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Helix aspersa: Jul-Aug 2009

On July 18, 2009, in helix aspersa, by Matt
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SFP helix aspersa jul-aug 2009

SLOW Food Perth’s Jul-Aug 2009 edition of its Helix aspersa newsletter features articles on kitchen and community gardens, with a recollection by Kojonup member Audrey Townshend about her efforts to develop a kitchen garden in Melbourne during World War II, and the story of the war-time government’s ‘Vegetables for Victory’ campaign. Skip to the present day, and read about an extraordinary school garden project in Onslow.

2009 Jul-Aug / PDF / index / word picture: joaquim da costa / kojonup on a plate: holistic farming yields retail partnership / air raid shelter inspires a gardening life / ‘vegetables for victory’ / leaping lizards in an onslow school garden / one harmonious snail / feasts, fasts, famines and fads – a peek at food history / shaking and making in japan / celebrate terra madre day / a slurp of real milk / slow food perth contacts / ‘feeding the snail’ – contributions welcome

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A slurp of real milk

On June 16, 2009, in event archive, by Matt
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A SLURP of real milk – do different white milks taste different? Try your palate at Slow Food Perth’s good, clean and fair food marquee at this year’s Mundaring truffle festival on Sun 09 Aug. Can you taste the difference between supermarket home-brand milk and the real thing? Like a calf, suckle up and test your tasting skills against our panel’s – including a wine judge, an olive oil judge and a cheesemaker.

This is just one of Slow Food Perth’s activities at the 2009 festival. There will also be kids’ blindfold food tastings, our ‘brainfood’ memory tunnel, the Country Women’s Association’s classic sponge cakes, wood-fired pizza, wonderful coffee, and fascinating Slow Food information. Do you know what an ‘ort’ is?

Or come and participate in a debate: ‘Is it smarter for us to eat an organic orange from Spain or a conventionally-farmed orange from Chittering?’ Hear a discussion on food miles, genetic modification and what we eat. Participants will include Slow Food Perth co-leaders Pauline Tresise and Jamie Kronborg, organic farmer Annie Kavanagh and author Jude Bleureau in Mundaring old hall on Sun 09 Aug at 12:30pm.

More information
Mundaring truffle festival web
Slow Food Perth flyer

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Moosical milk

On May 29, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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READING Corby Kummer’s article in The Atlantic about song being used to produce more lilting gelato brought back memories of visits to a cousin’s dairy farm where he used music at milking times to produce more milk. The link above shows famous Italian tenor Marcello Bedoni singing to the cows in the fields of the Lancashire dairy farm.

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