IN the Port News dated Friday 3 July 2015, David Gillespie urged us to undertake the country of origin food labelling survey.
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I went to the site and was horrified at the deceptive and misleading nature of the questions and images.
Firstly, no where is the country of origin identified, so how can we be developing an improved system, when this information is not required?
Two of the images presented in the survey as country of origin labelling had Australia or a kangaroo coloured in 100% when only 50% of the product may have come from Australia, or perhaps 60 or 70% does.
We can't tell from the image. There is no information provided on which country actually provides the other 50% of that product.
What would appeal to me would be an image with the kangaroo or Australia coloured to indicate 100% Australian grown and packaged. However this was not an option?
Alastair Fournel, Port Macquarie