FW: [Food Alliance] FW: [permaculture-oceania] Food Fairness Alliance[FFA]

[Russ Grayson]

ATTN: Penny F...

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> From: <ffa at lists.cat.org.au>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:57:35 +1000
> To: <ffa at lists.cat.org.au>
> Cc: Sarah Varley <SVarley at wollongong.nsw.gov.au>
> Subject: RE: [Food Alliance] FW: [permaculture-oceania] Food Fairness
> Alliance[FFA]
> 
> Hi all...
> 
> Just to clarify, Food Fairness Illawarra is still called Food Fairness
> Illawarra!   
> 
> Cheers, Vanessa 
> 
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> From: ffa-bounces at lists.cat.org.au [mailto:ffa-bounces at lists.cat.org.au]
> On Behalf Of ffa at lists.cat.org.au
> Sent: Monday, 17 July 2006 10:53
> To: Food Fairness Alliance
> Subject: [Food Alliance] FW: [permaculture-oceania] Food Fairness
> Alliance[FFA]
> 
> FYI... forwarded from another listserv...
> 
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>> From: P Ferguson <pennyfer at bigpond.net.au>
>> Reply-To: promoting permaculture and sustainable living in the oceania
> region
>> <permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:35:39 +1000
>> To: permaculture oceania <permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au>
>> Subject: [permaculture-oceania] Food Fairness Alliance [FFA]
>> 
>> FFA's brochure starts with a heading
>> Understanding FOOD INSECURITY
>> Why families go hungry in an affluent society
>> Just a developing country problem?  Think again ...
>> 
>> I went to a meeting of Food Fairness Illawarra [which recently changed
> its
>> name to something forgettable] this week; the two guest speakers were
> from
>> Foodbank and ozharvest.   Both are charities which collect up excess
> food from
>> various sources [supermarkets, manufacturers] and distribute it to
> charities
>> which feed hungry people.  Both have website.
>> 
>> Foodbank has 5 paid employees, numerous volunteers, large donors of
> goods, a
>> savvy board of directors, and handles thousands of tons of food which
> might
>> otherwise go to landfill.
>> The quantities staggered me e.g.
>> 300 pallets of McCains chips.  I wondered what the potato growers of
> Tasmania
>> would think of this, having just signed a contract to supply potatoes
> to
>> McCains at a lower price, scarcely covering growing costs.
>> 
>> P Ferguson
>> Illawarra NSW
>> 
>> 
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