Woolies 'milking consumers'

dualmeister said:
Friend of mine used to work for a farm with cows that supply Woolies their milk. Those are some of the most well treated cows you can imagine. Treated better than most humans in fact.

Also when I drive past their Ayrshire cows grazing on the lush green grass on the way to Franschhoek they look pretty chilled as well.

Shouldn't always believe everything you read :erm:
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If their dairy products were derived from the milk of grass-fed cows - I'm pretty sure the packaging would state as much. They might have a few cows eating grass but there's probably a larger % being fed organic feed (like corn). The whole grass-fed thing is getting quite popular these days & if all (or the majority) of their cattle were indeed grass-fed - they'd damn well use that fact to sell their products. They're not marketing dummies.
 
R110+ for a Peri Peri Chicken that you still need to cook...
Wow... just wow...

People buy it too! Believing that it somehow is "better".
Everything from Woolies is better right? Including the dairy, which comes out of the same plants as other dairy products.

I have no qualms with charging what you like as long as customers will pay for it... but don't try and convince the public that somehow your product is far superior than another equivalent product due to "woolies magic."

Milk is a commodity which farmers sell to a distributor, which is then processed and treated in central plants. I bet you all know where the clover plant is... or are at least aware that a clover plant exists in a city near you... but have you ever seen a "WoolWorths Dairy" plant? It comes from the same place as other dairy products, it's graded, and sold accordingly. So it's no different from other premium brand milk that comes from the very same plants.

Example: Woolworths Yogurt.
It's actually just milk, with corn starch, stabilizers and flavourants. It's not ACTUALLY real yogurt. Read the label.

I buy some things at woolies, but I'm under no illusion that somehow woolies products are better than other premium brand goods. Clever marketing, loyal customers, and convenience has elevated woolies above other retailers, but not because their products are somehow "magically" better than an equivalent product at Shop X.

Just don't swallow the hype... it's the same stuff. Just with a "W".
 
pension said:
Sonia - If you really want to expose WW investigate their association with child killers
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lol... good luck with that.

We're still waiting for BDS to protest one other human rights abuse in Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, etc....
But I think it's a wasted dream.
Those idiots would make better milk cows than the pastured cows mentioned in this article.
 
Woolies milk is the worst - ridiculous price and it goes off quicker than other milk.

And this organic rubbish? Milk is organic. It doesn't need a label but idiots and money soon part company.
 
Albereth said:
And this organic rubbish? Milk is organic. It doesn't need a label but idiots and money soon part company.
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How do people still not know what organic means in the context of produce and farming methods? Yes - apples, milk and beef are all organic in the biological sense that they are derived from or were part of living organisms. There's a difference between the biological context of the word and the context of the word which serves as an umbrella for various farming methods. I'm not saying organic is better or anything (that debate has happened plenty)...just that there's a clear distinction between the two definitions of the word & it's annoying when people say 'milk is organic'.
 
saor said:
How do people still not know what organic means in the context of produce and farming methods? Yes - apples, milk and beef are all organic in the biological sense that they are derived from or were part of living organisms. There's a difference between the biological context of the word and the context of the word which serves as an umbrella for various farming methods. I'm not saying organic is better or anything (that debate has happened plenty)...just that there's a clear distinction between the two definitions of the word & it's annoying when people say 'milk is organic'.
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Because if they mean it doesn't contain steroids or that they didn't fertilise it or that pesticides were nowhere near it then they should say so. Rather than think that the public should conform to what the industry makes up. It's the food industries equivalent of uncapped.

Everyone knows what organic means but the thieves in the indsutry create wriggle room with their own special use.

Sorry - if it has carbon it is organic.
 
Albereth said:
Sorry - if it has carbon it is organic.
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I agree. But words can have multiple meanings. Could they have chosen a different word? Of course, but they didn't. To say that there's no difference between the organic beef and the non-organic beef on the shelf because 'if it has carbon it is organic' is a really stubborn point of view. You're basically ignoring/denying the notion of organic (in the context of farming methods) because you disagree with their choice of what they called it.
 
saor said:
I agree. But words can have multiple meanings. Could they have chosen a different word? Of course, but they didn't. To say that there's no difference between the organic beef and the non-organic beef on the shelf because 'if it has carbon it is organic' is a really stubborn point of view. You're basically ignoring/denying the notion of organic (in the context of farming methods) because you disagree with their choice of what they called it.
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I'm rejecting their notion. And I urge other to do so too.

Another term that they like to use is 'free range'. In fact free range is akin to uncapped. Becuase what they really mean is that they'll throttle it. Free range chickens get 4 hours of sunlight, is it?

Back to multiple meanings. Organic had one meaning until some marketing types introduced a new meaning. And I'm not ignoring this. I'm rejecting it.
 
it's milk, eggs and chicken beef. What is the big deal? we have to eat, wether the cow slept on a memory foam mattress or if it slept outside, it still *****s when it walks. Chickens are still siff regardless if they sleep in the bushes or in a barn. what is all the fuss about?
 
/confused

Growing up in the southern natal interior and berg regions all the dairy farms had pasture fed cows. Sure there may have been so supplemental feed, but everyone had fields and fields of cattle. Never saw a barn or tiny pen full of cattle except at milking time.

Don't get why this pasture thing is suddenly a big thing, it's been around forever.
 
Eniigma said:
Don't get why this pasture thing is suddenly a big thing, it's been around forever.
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It's a big thing because people would prefer that their cows and other animals actually walked around in daylight out in the open and ate mostly the kinds of foods they should be eating - like the cows eating grass that you mentioned. It's been around forever, but it's a somewhat exclusive way of doing things in our modern world with profit margins and an ever growing population
 
I did not believe for one second that it came from free-range cows anyway.
 
saor said:
It's a big thing because people would prefer that their cows and other animals actually walked around in daylight out in the open and ate mostly the kinds of foods they should be eating - like the cows eating grass that you mentioned. It's been around forever, but it's a somewhat exclusive way of doing things in our modern world with profit margins and an ever growing population
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I think you misunderstood my point. I fully agree that the animals should be out there, I'm just saying that I thought they were. Maybe things have changed dramatically in the last 10 -15 years, but all the farms I've passed have the cattle out in the fields.
 
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