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Fleurieu Milk reinstates Halal accreditation.

pct001wine — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:13:43 GMT

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-21/halal-certification-fleurieu-milk-yoghurt-emirates-deal/6488322

Good to see this local company, contributing to our economy and employing Australians, has reversed its decision to not have Halal accreditation for their excellent dairy products.

They stood up to the ignorant on-line bullies and thugs who harrassed them in the first place to change their mind.

Cue all those "Waa waa will NEVER buy milk from Fleurieu Milk & Yoghurt Company again waa waa waa. Would rather buy from Parmalat or some other foreign-owned multinational dairy company that rips off their farmers and screws their consumers and makes carpy product but that's OK because we aren't funding ISIS waaaa waaaaa waaaa."

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azureline** — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:41:59 GMT

Well, no doubt an economic decision to benefit their export line. 🙂

Haven't read it yet......

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debra9275 — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:42:23 GMT

Brave business decision on their part when you think back to the campaign that was run against them. I wonder if they still have a FB account?

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azureline** — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:49:19 GMT

looks like they deleted their fb page

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debra9275 — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:55:53 GMT

Probably a wise move on their part Az

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azureline** — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:59:48 GMT

Very wise....... the Boycott Halal page is giving them a good going over........

Very unpleasant, some of them.

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azureline** — Fri, 22 May 2015 07:00:34 GMT

We talked to a lot of people we respected, other business owners and politicians, and decided we had made a rash decision.”

“We didn’t want to be perceived in a manner and be associated with these boycott halal and anti-Islam groups, so we made the decision to become halal [certified] again.”

Hutchinson says the deal was of major importance not only because Emirates purchase a significant amount of dairy product from Fleurieu Milk Company, but also because it opens the company up to international and tourism markets it may otherwise not have access to.

But Hutchinson says critics of halal-certification have continued to mount a campaign against the company’s decision.

“There has still been a lot of heat, without a doubt, but there has been support as well. We decided at the end of the day it was the right decision, we decided to make a stance,” he says.

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the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 22 May 2015 10:30:41 GMT

Standing straight and strong in the face of bullies and haters and doing your own thing in spite of them - what better example could there be of of uplholding those "true blue Aussie values" some people make sush a fuss about.

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bushies.girl — Fri, 22 May 2015 12:06:47 GMT

What an absolute load of Carp!

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polksaladallie — Fri, 22 May 2015 21:05:08 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
Very wise....... the Boycott Halal page is giving them a good going over........
Very unpleasant, some of them.

Unpleasantness seems to be a common denominator it the anti-halal people.

Pity those who live with them.

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i-need-a-martini — Fri, 22 May 2015 22:00:27 GMT

It sounds as if they made an informed and rational decision.

Now lets wait for uninformed and irrational comments about their decision.

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icyfroth — Sat, 23 May 2015 03:26:40 GMT

Just goes to show how powerful the Halal councils and the Muslims have become in Australia.

No doubt Fleurieu had to bow to Halal certification or be driven out of business.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 23 May 2015 04:03:39 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
Just goes to show how powerful the Halal councils and the Muslims have become in Australia.

No doubt Fleurieu had to bow to Halal certification or be driven out of business.

That would have to be one of the most uninformed posts I have read on the subject.Fleurieu's decision has nothing to do with pressure from Australian Muslims. The local market is comparitively tiny and if Australian Muslims stopped buying from them the effect on their sales would be negligible. The main reason they need Halal certification is to maintain their very lucrative contract with Emirates Airlines - who, as a business, are presumably entitled to include whatever conditions they choose in their contracts.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 23 May 2015 04:05:46 GMT

@bushies.girl wrote:
What an absolute load of Carp!

No, they are milk vendors, not fishmongers.

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azureline** — Sat, 23 May 2015 04:50:47 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
Just goes to show how powerful the Halal councils and the Muslims have become in Australia.

No doubt Fleurieu had to bow to Halal certification or be driven out of business.

No doubt they wanted the Etihad contract..........they do good local business so would not be driven out.

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boris1gary — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:44:15 GMT

@azureline** wrote:

@icyfroth wrote:

Just goes to show how powerful the Halal councils and the Muslims have become in Australia.

No doubt Fleurieu had to bow to Halal certification or be driven out of business.

No doubt they wanted the Etihad contract..........they do good local business so would not be driven out.

@icyfroth wrote:

Just goes to show how powerful the Halal councils and the Muslims have become in Australia.

and goes to show just how moronic the loud but oh so annoying anti halal people are, to be fair they are great fun to laugh at though.

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bushies.girl — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:06:11 GMT

Yeah whatever .....

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polksaladallie — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:30:50 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@bushies.girl wrote:
What an absolute load of Carp!
No, they are milk vendors, not fishmongers.

But are carp halal?

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iapetus_rocks — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:57:03 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Standing straight and strong in the face of bullies and haters and doing your own thing in spite of them - what better example could there be of of uplholding those "true blue Aussie values" some people make sush a fuss about.

But then you go on to say in a later post

" The main reason they need Halal certification is to maintain their very lucrative contract with Emirates Airlines - who, as a business, are presumably entitled to include whatever conditions they choose in their contracts. .. "

So, which is it; the courageous little company standing "straight and strong" and acting from a position of principle, or is it just a dispassionate, carefully calculated business decision?

It's all good publicity, in any case.

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 23 May 2015 06:07:32 GMT

@bushies.girl wrote:
Yeah whatever .....

Your favourite word this week?