Wattie’s has confirmed it is reducing the volume of Hawke’s Bay peaches it buys as demand for New Zealand–grown canned fruit declines, with consumers increasingly choosing cheaper imported alternatives.
Some long-time growers told legacy media (paywalled) they plan to replant orchards with other crops such as apples.
Summerfruit NZ chief executive Dean Smith said the sudden change was concerning for growers who had invested heavily in their orchards, while industry voices acknowledged the difficulty of competing with low-cost overseas products. Wattie’s, owned by mult-national globalist giant Kraft Heinz, said the decision was “not made lightly”.
I don’t think the health integrity of peaches from China would in any way be compromised and contaminated with such things as heavy metals pesticides and other nasties
A lot of Chinese green teas still contain these too
Sencha tea from Japan is a better bet
The last thing You want is more heavy metals in Your brain
We get enough from chem trails
Nothing like paying for Your Own destruction
Yes Sencha tea is good for people with arthritis or gout
Like grass fed meat
Avoid dressed meats which are invariably high purine old meat
And may contain lactic acid
I bought a Chinese traditional blue clay tea pot
Which you dam near need a license to drive
Theres quite a lot in tea making
Not just reading tea leaves
Yeah, as someone who has been to China including rural China, “it depends”. If the fruit it grown up North in rural areas a lot of it is “amazing” but you are correct, stuff grown elsewhere, is very hit and miss in terms of quality. Its a shame that New Zealanders can no longer afford their own local fruit, mind you even our local policing is being replaced by US imports, I wonder whats next?
Next is that the government is going broke. Yes it is. Well not yet outright, but the free-money plane is breaking down.
We see that nation-wide. The ‘money’ (aka debt) still dished out to the minion parasites is getting more expensive to borrow from the international banksters while the real productive people are getting regulated (=taxed) to death. Can’t p*ss off the gravy-train punters who are accustomed to the illusion of productive worth, ay?
As to the peaches: maybe less red-tape? Maybe better incentives for WINZ bludgers to get a job? Maybe realization that minimum wages cannot compete with oversea slaves working for a bowl of rice? Or maybe consumers taking responsibility and not buying that Heinz/Watties crap? (Hint: it’s full of sugar). Or maybe making your own canned peaches.
I can hear voices saying “oh-me-oh-my, that’s too much work”. …Not when you are out of work.
Yes we can’t blame the state of the economy on Ardern and her economic whizz kid who decided to go against the grain on treasury advice and conjured up safe proven and effective
The thing is though NZ would be in a lot better position to weather the storm that is coming if these illiterate drunken sailors hadn’t gone on a spending bender
As for govt red tape and overreach
It is everywhere
People need less govt in their lives
When this news was first reported last week, there was talk of forming co-operatives to sell peaches direct to the public – does anyone know how we can source such fruit directly from NZ orchards?
Ask AI
Business opportunity for someone else?
What’s left if NZ can’t even compete as a primary producer?
Real estate speculation? Coffee shops?
Be wary of cheap bulk pumpkin seeds from China too
You can get bulk pumpkin seeds out of a pumpkin, and they easy to grow too.
True
But raw seeds and dried seeds have an entirely different taste
Its all ones preference
But as for pumpkin seeds and skin they are in addition to the pumpkin a super food in themselves
A lot of the nutrients in the skin are not in the seeds
Nothing is wasted
Blending is good which acts as a pre stomach aiding digestion and absorption
Soak seeds and skin overnight in a mild Himalayan Rock Salt solution
Be sure to buy the right type of blender with the ‘milling-wheel’
Yes soak overnight like with walnuts to assist digestion
I scape the seeds out, wash ’em and gently roast them in the oven. The rest of the pumpkin either goes into a stew chopped up but with the skin on, or is stuffed and roasted – with the skin on, which is also eaten.
Only the woody bit around the stem is thrown out into the compost bin.