{"id":377636,"date":"2018-09-17T23:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/needled-strawberries-food-terrorism-down-under\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T23:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:53:01","slug":"needled-strawberries-food-terrorism-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/needled-strawberries-food-terrorism-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Needled Strawberries: Food Terrorism Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There is something peculiar doing the rounds in Australian food circles.\u00a0 The land down under, considered something of a nirvana of fruit and vegetable production despite horrendous droughts and calamitous cyclones, is facing a new challenge: human agency, namely in the form of despoliation of strawberries.<\/p>\n<p>The results have knocked Australia\u2019s highly concentrated supermarket chains, with both Coles and Aldi withdrawing all their fruit with a nervousness that has not been seen in years.\u00a0 A spate of incidents involving \u201ccontamination\u201d, or pins stuck in the fruit, have manifested across a range of outlets.\u00a0 Strawberry brands including Donnybrook Berries, Love Berry, Delightful Strawberries, Oasis brands, Berry Obsession, Berry Licious and Mal\u2019s Black Label have made it onto the list of needled suppliers.\u00a0 There have been possible copycat initiates doing the rounds.\u00a0 \u201cThis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/food\/food-warnings\/first-contaminated-strawberries-found-in-sydney-as-coles-removes-qldgrown-punnets-from-shelves\/news-story\/dcfb8c807e747032b0234156f70bf2c7\">exclaimed<\/a> Strawberries Australia Inc. Queensland spokesman Ray Daniels, \u201cis food terrorism that is bringing an industry to its knees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game of food contamination, infection or, as Daniels deems it, food terrorism, is the sort of thing that multiplies in fear and emotion.\u00a0 It targets the industry itself (the strawberry market is already frail before the effects of pest and blight), and ensures maximum publicity for the perpetrator.\u00a0 Then there is the constant fear of a potential victim, the all stifling terror of legal action that might find a target in the form of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/needled-strawberries-food-terrorism-down-under\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something peculiar doing the rounds in Australian food circles.\u00a0 The land down under, considered something of a nirvana of fruit and vegetable production despite horrendous droughts and calamitous cyclones, is facing a new challenge: human agency, namely in the form of despoliation of strawberries. The results have knocked Australia\u2019s highly concentrated supermarket chains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}