We do our shopping at Foodland Brighton and Foodland Hallett Cove. Those stores are terrific. We love farmers markets and Adelaide Central Market too.  Whenever I go into those other monster shops, I’m shocked at the number of product lines disappearing off the shelves and being replaced by home brand products. Every time a product line goes missing so does choice and jobs, especially although not exclusively from small manufacturers.

We pay about 25 to 35 dollars a week extra to support privately owned businesses because we believe if we don’t we will finish up with one brand of everything, it will be owned by one company from the grower to the store and we will pay dramatically more. We will have less choice and no say in whether the food is genetically modified or chemically treated in any other way. They already don’t have to tell us where the food comes from or if it’s genetically modified. They are already taking the seeds from the fruit and vegetables, which contain not only vital nutrients but allow us a choice to grow our own if we choose to. Please support choice and variety. It’s worth it.

Your health is dependent on the quality and variety of your food. Your food, like your body, doesn’t need any help to be healthy, it just needs no interference.