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Potato farmers have been forced to reduce production and take pay cuts because suppliers to major fast food chains have allegedly joined the trend to buy potatoes offshore.

Are Australian potato suppliers being realistic about the cost of their potatoes or is this another case of corporate greed sticking the boot into Aussie farmers?

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"burgers ae better at Hungry Jacks" with imported fries! jusst see how they like this slogan on billboards or plackards!
So are all you people gonna show your support for the fertilizer companies that farmers are turning away from. Yes you read right, farmers are importing their fertilizer from overseas. the irony
again we hear that we will be eating more food and produce from overseas and the government and food authorities stand back and as usual do nothing.We have some of the best and freshest food in the world which is being ploughed back into the ground while we have to eat imported, chemically inhanced and preserved rubbish from overseas and are told that this is in our best interest. Soon our farmers will stop the growing as they will not be able to survive.We will all suffer while we hear more excuces.
I Will Never Take My Kids To Hungry Jacks Again And Have Kids Parties again Until They Support Our Farmers.
My daughter and I were watching the Spitting Chips segment on ACA. We are appalled that Australian Farmers are treated with such contempt and mercilessly have a gun held to their heads, over the reduced prices for potatoes and other produce, with the take or leave it attitude from these big multinationals. These companies don't care that our farmers are doing it tough, only care of the mighty off shore dollar. We feel so strongly on this issue, that we are going to boycott buying food from the likes of Hungry Jacks and McDonalds from the 18.12.2009 until the 25.12.2009, as our protest toward the abandonment of their support and neglect for our farmers and we'll buy our take aways locally. We'll send the email plus an exert of your story to our email contacts inviting them to do the same. In the hope they pass this on their contacts and so on. To support the plight of our Australian farmers and we stand united against this unAustralian act and it becomes nationally known.
Is A Current Affair sposored by Wooworths? The story on home brand products was just a big plug for Woolworths. How many small businesses has Woooworths put out of business by creating their own home brands and no longer buying from the small businesses they copied from in the first instance. And if everyone buys Wooworths home brands as you pushed on your show then again Woolworths would have no more competition and guess what, I bet Woolworths home brands would not be so cheap in the future. Why not report on the real Woolworths and the billions in profoit they make each year on Petrol, Groceries and Alcohol, by ripping off all Australians. I note the Politicians dont do anything as they are scared of them, are you scared as well to report the truth, instead of praising these money hungry corporations, with not report the injustices they do to working families. One of many *** Australian.
“Hungry Jacks are greedy.” And I will not bother with them from now on. I don’t see why I should buy food from overseas. “Food bought from overseas is not as fresh as home grown produce.” S o I would not recommend Hungry Jacks at any time, go and eat somewhere.
hi my name is yvette dellamarta And i work at Hungry Jacks in sunbury Vic Australia and i can't say i want buy there chips to hungry jacks vic australia because i might get sacked by i think there potoes should grow and be from Australia and grow there potatoes in Australia not overseas
just dont support these take aways that dont buy australian produce.i am over all these dam imports ,we dont know whats in the water that they use . could be anything. the old saying is look after your own family first .and australia should be looked at in that way .So just dont buy the dam products .
we are only going to end up like our oureach communities, unable to supply ourand self sustain own!!!, Yes I agree I dont mind paying an extra dollar for fries, but hey , we really should be cutting the waist down anyway, these companies have supported Australian farmers in the past and upto now recently, but how much money do they really need to keep in the bank???.What else can our Australian Governemnt Allow to let go?God only knows the farmer has always gotten the raw deal..... Another Fast food Chain.... Hungry Jacks aren't even Australian!let them Leave and not our farmers. All in the name of humanity?what a joke

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