Philippine Banana Exports
Wow, some harsh words coming from Australia, a country that exports many foods, especially dairy products to the Philippines has some highly inflammatory and insulting words for the Philippines. So far, I’ve not had 
any Australian dairy products that I could enjoy. I even let cheese get old and had to throw it out. It was like eating plastic except it had less taste.
Protectionism or Valid Concerns, I don’t know but his is what the Lee Collins of the Australian Banana Growers’ Council said the following things:
There are plenty of bananas in Australia, we don’t need the other bananas
We will do whatever it takes to stop these bananas coming in.
We are concerned that the proposed quarantine measures are to be implemented by Philippine banana growers on farms which do not have a culture of quarantine and would be open to manipulation and abuse.
The Philippines are a very corrupt country. Money can buy you anything in the Philippines.
The disease risks are simply too great and we must never forget that the federal agency, Biosecurity Australia, has a very poor track record on this
The first comment makes it sound like protectionism, we don’t need any other bananas? That sounds like they don’t want cheaper bananas to me. The last statement seems to show fault with Australian agency and penalize the Philippines for it.
I doubt these words will be well received in the Philippines and it seems he protest too much.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Loading ...
Could be some of both. There is a nasty bananna fungus going around now that they say is endangering the breed that is commonly imported to the US.
Banana breading? LOL The banana’s are growing around here just fine, even wild.
I wrote about the story because of the degree of insults leveled against the PI.
I’ll admit I’m biased, I’m very pro Philippines.
PS I think the US gets most of its bananas from south America.
That’s true they do. I can’t remember where I saw the article now. They might very well have no other reason than protectionism. They did mention some things that might be real concerns.
Yes there are different breeds of banannas. I’ve never seen the mating rituals but someone has.