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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 15, 2013 14:49:57 GMT 12
Anyway....Watties (and their parent company, Heinz) now has a new owner.
None other than multi-billionaire American investor Warren Buffett.
That man is so loaded that several years ago he purchased the entire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company for what would have been mere pocket change to him.• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying Heinz ketchup company(Los Angeles Times news story — February 14th, 2013)
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Post by agviser1970 on Feb 15, 2013 16:41:40 GMT 12
Be careful what you hope for. If the idea of eating only home-grown produce catches on in USA, UK, France, South America, Russia, China or any of the other 100-plus countries that we export our dairy produce to, little old NZ will suddenly find itself in deep do-do. Its not generally known outside farming circles that we export no less than 95% of our dairy products and consume only 5% locally.
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Post by saratoga on Feb 15, 2013 16:46:41 GMT 12
Be careful what you hope for. If the idea of eating only home-grown produce catches on in USA, UK, France, South America, Russia, China or any of the other 100-plus countries that we export our dairy produce to, little old NZ will suddenly find itself in deep do-do. Its not generally known outside farming circles that we export no less than 95% of our dairy products and consume only 5% locally. And Fonterra makes as much profit from that 5% as they do from the other 95%. NZ milk(?) and cheese is cheaper in UK than here!.
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 15, 2013 20:33:37 GMT 12
Aren't they horseburgers over there? Hee hee hee.... Mate, the French have been chowing down on Neddie and Nellie for eons, and make no secret of the fact! They are a lot less squeamish than the poms; they even hunt, shoot and consume the likes of blackbirds....
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 15, 2013 20:46:18 GMT 12
Hee hee hee.... Mate, the French have been chowing down on Neddie and Nellie for eons, and make no secret of the fact! They are a lot less squeamish than the poms; they even hunt, shoot and consume the likes of blackbirds.... And if you go into a restaurant in France, or Belgium or the Netherlands and order a steak of horsemeat, odds are that it has come from New Zealand. That's right....a couple of specialist export horse slaughterhosues in NZ supply a huge proportion of the European restaurant horsemeat market.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 15, 2013 21:04:12 GMT 12
Finest quality probably comes from here in Cambridge...
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Post by Calum on Feb 16, 2013 18:03:59 GMT 12
Finest quality probably comes from here in Cambridge... Most likely. Like for petfood Horsemeat is a by-product of the horse racing industry.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2013 18:49:17 GMT 12
It's a pity they don't use the excess jockeys and trainers too.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 16, 2013 19:02:01 GMT 12
Finest quality probably comes from here in Cambridge... Most likely. Like for petfood Horsemeat is a by-product of the horse racing industry. However, there are two EXPORT horse slaughterhouses in NZ that have nothing to do with the petfood industry.
They exclusively process horses for human consumption and export their products to Europe, mostly for the restaurant trade.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2013 19:06:49 GMT 12
It's amazing that there's enough horses needing to be killed to go around the petfood trade and the European human meat markets. They are not exactly intensively farmed like sheep and cattle.
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