" What is more important to you ? "

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2. I am heterosexual.

3. Although not religious I tend to believe in the so-called Christian values

and beliefs.

Sir Mike's Comments 25/3/2017

Subject " ? What is more important to you ? "
Information from: The Free Wikipedia, Kangaroo Court Publications, ABS and many

other sources.

G/day people wherever you are.

People I have no doubt that if I conducted a survey of my many 1000's of readers over

a myriad of countries around the globe in regard to " What is more important to you "
the variation in the answers/replies would be as varied as the people themselves, for
instance:

The safety and welfare of the family and loved ones, getting a new house, unit, job, car,
fishing boat and equipment, holiday, winning the big one on the lottery, horses, casino
with the list filling umpteen A4 pages.

Napoleon Bona Parte.

Frederick The Great of Prussia,

Claudius Galen the Chief Physician to the Roman Army.

Now according to the free Wikipedia history is not to sure which of the three blokes
pictured above came up with the statement quote "An Army Marches on it's Stomach"

unquote, therefore I believe it goes without question that if we superimpose the word

" Nation " for " Army " the same principle applies, if not more so.

Therefore the most important issue in my life, without being paranoid about it, is to

ensure where possible that what I consume in the way of food and beverage is
beneficial to my well being, because let us face facts without a good diet to sustain

us every thing else is totally unattainable/unachievable in the long, or even in the short

term, and without being a food saint over my 76 years plus where I have over indulged
and paid the short term consequences, I have current medical evidence to show that I
would be one of the healthiest and strong 76 plus year old Aussie males in this country.

Now I realise the variety of food and beverage consumed around the globe is so diverse
it would be to vast for anyone or organisation to gather and record, however it is the

end result that counts.

Shane Dowling - Kangaroo Court of Australia Publications.

Article dated the 11th March 2017 - Woolworths, Coles and Aldi running a scam

selling imported food as organic - see attached scroll down.

This article of Shane Dowling's I received a week or two ago got me thinking and
researching, and I am not liking what I am finding by far!! and the more I look into

these so-called World Trade Agreements the more concerned I am for this Aussie

Nations health and wellbeing now and especially into the future.

Aussie is becoming more and more reliant on imported prepared/manufactured

consumables from countries like China, India, Vietnam,Thailand where quality

control and health checks and consumable analyses is just not part of their

vocabulary let alone put into effect.

China and it's pollution.

Where to start with China?? even their own people prefer imported goods if they

can get them, especially from Aussie, providing their Central Government does not

limit, put an embargo on imports, so much for their current " Free Trade Rhetoric ".

According to the Chinese State Environment Protection Administration soil pollution

is effecting food safety and sustainability, where 38,610 sq miles ( 100,000 km2 ) of
China's cultivated agricultural land has been polluted with contaminated water used
to irrigate 31.5 million miles plus another 2 million miles, which amounts to one tenth
of China's cultivated land, has been destroyed by solid waste, ? it would not take
much imagination to figure out what that solid waste could contain with the lack of

human sewerage facilities for such a huge population, other than I gather the following.

Heavy metals including: mercury, lead, cadmium, copper, nickel, chromium, zinc to
name but a few which are contaminating the soils to such an extent that it is having
adverse health effects on human metabolism via ingestion, contact through the
skin, diet through the sea food chain, respiratory intake, oral intake can all be an
absorption mechanism from soil contamination by heavy metals in regard to human
health, however this is more than over looked as a critical threat to food security in
China??.

The Vietnam Polluted Rivers.

The Thailand Polluted Rivers.

Now bearing in mind I stated previously that there are very few, if any, quality
control in Asia which I believe is the result of not only corruption on a grand

scale, but their attitude is as a result of the huge numbers, billions of people,

they have as populations and as a consequence life is cheap, and so what if a

few 100 thousand of their population gets sick from contaminated food.

I believe Aussie consumes 70% of it's seafood from overseas, and in NSW the

figure is closer to 85% the bulk of it from Asia, however imported prawns have
been banned because of the so-called ' White Spot Disease '.

I hear through the grape vine that many migrants such as Indians and

the like, that are becoming proprietors of sea food restaurants ( Fish & Chip
Shops ) are not stating so because that would be illegal, but if the customers

don't ask, which is in most cases, they are cooking this possible dangerous

sea food crap take away and passing it off as Aussie products, because if the

customer gets sick the answer would be " Well it was all ok when it left these

premises it must have been contaminated after that " and proving heavy metal

contamination once the regurgitated product has been flushed down the toilet

would be impossible to prove, so the best of luck there.

The Indian slums.

One third of India's slum dwellers live in unrecognised slums, however there
are 65 million people, up from 52 million at 2001, that are recognised as slum
dwellers, but there again considering in 2016 India's population was estimated

at 1.326 billion, some,? would you believe 382 people per square kilometre,
possibly soon to be the highest concentration of population per square kilometre
on the globe, ? no wonder they are becoming the largest bunch of immigrants to
come to Aussie.

Aussie imports 100's if not 1000's of articles/goods/services from India across

a very wide range from industrial, commercial and retail worth 100's of millions

of Aussie dollars.

Now the imports that concern me from a myriad of articles I have read, to many

to mention here, where Indian quality control is coming under question is as

follows:

Body, skin, face, hair, baby, health, eye, Lip/tooth, ear care along with medicines,

perfumes, organic, homeopathy, nutrition & supplements, sexual products.

and this is just a fraction of the multi-millions of dollars worth of across the board

imports from India of this type.

Now surely any reasonable person would be forgiven in asking how many of the

multi-millions of the unrecognised slum dwellers, and the 65 million slum dwellers

are employed in the factories that produce these imported products as very
cheap labour and ? do their unfortunate domestic living circumstances where their
unhygienic conditions, by Aussie standards anyway,and their possibility of transferring

any diseases, which over the generations they have become immune too, but have
become carriers of, going to rear their ugly heads in the products that these

organizations produce for which we Aussies have no resistance too, especially our

young babies/children??.

Cancers and other deadly debilitating diseases are more than often prevented taking

hold, or having a serious effect, by Mother Natures built in defence systems.

However even with these great defences if they come under sustained attack from

heavy metals, various pollutants and diseases can be penetrated with devastating

if not deadly effect especially on the young, elderly, sick and vulnerable.

The more I read about these World Trade Agreements I believe it is obvious they are

profit generators, and certainly not employment generators, where we have seen

millions of workers in the so-called Western Societies made unemployed as companies

and organisation move off shore to where company taxes are less, if not at all for the

first number of years, the health and safety of the workers across the board, quality

control and product health analyses, corruption is part, and condoned, of the every
day operation, to name but a few of the benefits, and where the majority, by far, of
these people that are made redundant are dumped on the Tax Payers as welfare

dependents, and where these countries like Aussie are now struggling financially to

keep up with the billions of dollars needed to maintain an ever increasing welfare

expenditure program.

I am led to believe from what I read that even China's manufactures are being slowly

converted over to automation creating unemployment ? that would in my view be a
huge mistake if their huge work force is denied being able to receive the benefits

of China's prosperity before they have had the chance too?? the violence in years to

come as a result will be catastrophic and calamitous not only for China but the World

economy in general.

Now people what I have supplied here is a mili-fraction of the information available

but certainly not on the major media, because many of the companies that are in my

view the perpetrators of the unemployment,and the lowering of food standards coming

into Aussie are big advertiser in the commercial TV, Radio and Newspaper organisations,

and the ABC and SBS are to busy spending scarce Tax Payers funds promoting " Gay

Marriage " - " Women's International Day " and other Tax Payer funded minorities

concerns.

However if you are not prepared to read the labels on products and be selective in what

you consume one way or the other, and contact your/our amateur talk lots, achieve

little, self interested pollies at all levels of this over governed Nation of Aussie, and get

them to pass laws ensuring what the label states is actually there, and when it states

produced from " Local and imported goods " ?? " IMPORTED FROM WHERE??? ' then

don't whinge when you and your loved ones spend more time visiting your Doctor with

unexplained ailments, and the most purchased item in your shopping trolley is

" TOILET PAPER ".

Sir Mike Howe - but you can call me Mike.

Scroll down and be concerned, very concerned, because I can only go on what Shane
Dowling is producing here in regard to honey, but from what my research is showing is
that there are questions across the Aussie food chain to be answered before Aussies
health in general is seriously effected.

Shane Dowling.

Kangaroo Court of Australia

WOOLWORTHS, COLES AND ALDI RUNNING A SCAM SELLING IMPORTED FOOD AS ORGANIC

A major organic food scam has been exposed which involves Woolworths, Coles and Aldi selling cheap imported food as organic food and when I asked the certifier, Australian Certified Organic (ACO), questions they refused to answer. ACO have already started with the legal threats in an attempt to cover-up what is happening as per the legal letter sent to Save the Bees publisher Simon Mulvany below.

Most Australians would think they are buying Australian produced food when they buy food labeled as organic and they shouldn’t have to read the fine print to work out they’re not. The old saying “always follow the money” comes to mind when looking at this scandal and trying to work out who’s doing what and why. E.g. How much is Capilano Honey paying ACO to use the certification label?

The scam is quite simple. Import food, in this case honey, say it is organic and pay an Australian certifier to give you a label to prove it is organic and then have the major grocery stores stock the product. A lot of Australians will buy it thinking they are buying Australian organic honey given the labels and the fact that is being sold in a major grocery store they trust.

At the moment it is not known how widespread the scam is as it is still under investigation but I would suspect it will ultimately be shown to spread across numerous food sectors. But it does involve the likes of the major grocery stores, Australian Certified Organic and Capilano Honey and their Allowrie Honey brand.

I wrote to Capilano Honey’s Mr Trevor Morgan (Chairman) and Ms Annette Zbasnik (Company Secretary) in September 2016 asking questions about Capilano Honey and their CEO Ben McKee lying about the quality of their honey etc and they refused to respond. (Click here to read more)

One example is Aldi selling its own brand honey as organic which most consumers would think was Australian honey but the small print on the label reveals it is less than 10% Australian. It has the same Australian Certified Organic certification number (472) as Allowrie Honey, that also claims to be 100% organic, which points to the fact that Capilano Honey who own Allowrie are producing honey for Aldi.

The Chinese sell their low quality honey to Australia and then import Australian honey back to China which tells the story by itself. On what basis the imported honey is being called organic no one seems to know and if they do know they’re not telling anyone and how reliable would their answers be anyhow?

Capilano Honey have a huge financial interest in imported honey

The Australian reported in February 2017:

Australian beekeepers have called on the federal government to investigate the risk posed to the local $100 million honey industry and bee population by the recent jump in honey imports.

The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council is concerned imported honey from countries such as China and Mexico could contain live viruses and bacteria that cause bee disease and threaten the survival of Australia’s introduced honey bee population and 1500 species of native bees.

Australian honey imports have more than doubled in the past three years, with nearly 10,000 tonnes bought by Australian honey processors and food manufacturers in 2015-16.

Australia’s biggest honey processor, Brisbane-based ASX-listed Capilano — 19 per cent owned by Kerry Stokes through his family investment vehicle Wroxby-ACE Investments — last year imported about 4000 tonnes of honey into Australia from a small processing plant it owns in ­Argentina and also from China.

These imports added to the 10,500 tonnes of pure Australian honey Capilano bought from its 600 supplying beekeepers, about 70 per cent of all local production. (Click here to read more)

Aldi Honey – made by Capilano – Less than 10% Australian but apparently organic

If the Aldi honey is less than 10% Australian honey, how much less? Is it one percent? And what percentage of Australian honey is Allowrie Honey?

Both Allowrie Honey, which is owned by Capilano Honey, and Aldi Honey have the same certification number which points to Capilano producing it for Aldi.

It’s scandal by itself that a company can get away with saying a product is less than 10% Australian? They should be forced to say exactly what the percentages are. 1%, 2% or 3% etc.

Aldi Honey – It says “less than 10% Australian ingredients” on the bottle.

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Aldi say on their website:

Proudly Australian made

Since our first store opened in 2001, ALDI has played an important role in the Australian community. Each day, our operations improve the livelihoods of local businesses, create employment opportunities and deliver high quality products to Australian families at everyday low prices.

We have worked closely with Australian farmers, producers and manufacturers to establish long-term relationships. The majority of ALDI’s exclusive brands are sourced from Australian suppliers, and we only source products from overseas when we can’t find the product, quality, efficiency or innovation we seek, here in Australia. (Click here to read more)

Aldi’s claim of “Proudly Australian made” is looking like a major league lie. Are they claiming they can’t find any quality Australian honey?

Legal threats to try and hide the truth

Below is the legal threat sent to Simon Mulvany on the 6th March 2017 after he published a post on his Save the Bees Facebook page on the the 5th of March which started off:

“Australia’s reputation as an organic producer is at risk because of deceptive organic certification on Capilano Honey subsidiary Allowrie brand.

Health conscious Elisa purchased this Allowrie Organic honey because being Australian certified organic honey gave Elisa the impression the honey was 100 percent Australian. She was shocked when told by Australian Certified Organic that the imported honey was not tested by them and could have come from several countries including China. Australian Organic has partnered with the Chinese and other countries.”

Threatening Simon Mulvany on behalf of the Australian Federal Government

The below letter is written by lawyer Trent Sleeman who works directly for ACO and the most disturbing part is when he says:

“We have also advised the Federal Government and our client depicted in the post of its presence; some of these parties have indicated that they will be taking legal action.”

It is not for any company or corporate lawyer to threaten a party with legal action on behalf of the Federal Government or one of its departments. Australian Certified Organic should sack Trent Sleeman summarily.

I emailed the below questions to Mr Sleeman and the Directors of ACO and they have refused to answer.

From: SHANE DOWLING
Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2017 10:00 PM
To: ‘Trent.Sleeman@austorganic.com’ ‘chair@austorganic.com’ ‘whetstoneorganics@bigpond.com’ ‘kim.marketing@culinaryfoods.com’ ‘Martin@unitedorganics.com.au’ ‘manager@kiallafoods.com.au’
Cc: ‘contact@austorganic.com’
Subject: Suspected corrupt conduct by Australian Certified Organic

Dear Mr Sleeman – General Counsel – Australian Organic Group

I have read the legal letter (Concerns notice) that you sent Simon Mulvany and read the so called offending Facebook story. I will be publishing an article on my website and have some questions.

1. Allowrie Honey, which is owned by Capilano Honey, is a mixture of honey including imported honey from China, Mexico and Argentina etc. How can you allow your ACO Certified Organic label to be used on Allowrie Honey when a large proportion of it is imported from overseas and it is clearly not Australian honey which the consumers would assume it is?
2. Given the “ACO” part of the Label stands for “Australian Certified Organic” which clearly states and implies the labelled product is a 100% Australian product do you agree that you are aiding and abetting Allowrie Honey (Capilano) to deliberately deceive Australian consumers?
3. Are you aware the above conduct is a breach of Australian consumer laws?
4. Can you advise what testing Australian Certified Organic has done regarding the Allowrie honey? If you haven’t done testing why not?
5. If Australian Certified Organic have done testing can you supply me with a copy of the test results as I am sure consumers would be interested.
6. You say in your letter to Simon Mulvany “We have also advised the Federal Government and our client depicted in the post of its presence; some of these parties have indicated that they will be taking legal action.” Can you name exactly which parties will be taking action and give me their contact details? Is one of the parties Capilano Honey and/or Ben McKee?
7. Can you advise which Australian Government agency you deal with and the contact name and details?

Please respond ASAP as I may have follow-up questions.

Regards

Shane Dowling

Below are pictures that show Allowrie honey uses the same ACO certification number as Aldi honey which shows that Allowrie’s owner, Capilano Honey, makes both.

The above picture was taken at Woolworths and the same product is for sale on Coles website.

Allowrie only says that their honey is packed from quality local and imported ingredients. If they can put less than 10% Australian on the Aldi Honey bottle how come they can’t say what Australian honey percentage is in Allowrie?

Capilano Honey have been suing Simon Mulvany for defamation since February 2016 (Click here to read more) and have been playing the go slow routine with the case. They have also been suing me since October 2016 but have since refused to give me a statement of claim after a number of requests by me which shows they have no confidence in winning either case.

I have no doubt the above scandal will explode into a major internet / social media battle if Australian Certified Organic do sue Simon Mulvany for defamation. ACO would better advised to start doing the right thing by consumers instead of aiding and abetting companies fooling consumers.

The issue of dodgy labeling of food as organic won’t go away as producers and importers see it as a way of increasing their sales. The government needs to stop turning a blind eye to it and step up and take this battle on because if they don’t the public will. Woolworths, Coles and Aldi all have some serious questions they need to answer and there obviously needs to be something like a Senate inquiry to try and shine a light on the truth.

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