{"id":229106,"date":"2019-02-20T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=229106"},"modified":"2020-07-24T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T02:57:15","slug":"calls-grow-for-coles-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/02\/20\/calls-grow-for-coles-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls Grow For Coles Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211571\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180618tessmann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-211571\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180618tessmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180618tessmann.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180618tessmann-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coolabunia farmer Damien Tessmann &#8230; urging other dairy farmers to take to social media to speak directly to milk consumers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v3.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<table width=\"320\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/287821505227965\/videos\/307808123425534\/\" data-width=\"300\" data-show-text=\"false\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/287821505227965\/videos\/307808123425534\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>February 20, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coolabunia dairy farmer Damien Tessmann\u00a0has joined a chorus of rural voices calling for a boycott of Coles supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m just one dairy farmer asking for support through the power of social media from consumers to boycott Coles supermarkets until they lift their damaging and soul-destroying $1 milk products,&#8221; Damien said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen tremendous leadership from Woolworths. It&#8217;s now time for Coles and for Aldi to follow suit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damien, a former South Burnett Regional councillor, is the nephew of Queensland Dairyfarmers Organisation president Brian Tessmann who has also been urging consumers to boycott Coles.<\/p>\n<p>Damien urged other dairy farmers to take to social media to speak out directly to consumers, too.<\/p>\n<p>The calls for a boycott follow Coles&#8217; and Aldi&#8217;s refusal to follow Woolworths&#8217; lead and ditch $1-a-litre milk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agriculture Minister David Littleproud also refused on Wednesday to back away from his criticism of Coles and Aldi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Littleproud labelled Coles an &#8220;arrogant supermarket giant&#8221; saying the company&#8217;s comments that it was waiting for an \u201cindustry-wide solution\u201d to the dairy price issue was &#8220;yet another cop-out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And he pointed out that the supermarket had just announced a six-month profit of $738 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Littleproud also responded to criticism that he was calling for a boycott of Coles at the same time that he owned Woolworths shares.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said he had instructed his broker to sell his 25 shares to stop them &#8220;becoming a distraction from the real issue of gaining a fair price for dairy farmers for their milk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve instructed my broker to sell my 25 shares in Woolworths worth $756.25, which returned $15 last year. Any proceeds will be donated to the Western Queensland Drought Appeal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shares and their $15 return created absolutely no conflict of interest and I will continue to bash Coles and Aldi for their poor treatment of farmers, as well as Woolworths when they deserve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coles CEO Steven Cain told the Australian Financial Review on Tuesday that $1-a-litre milk had been &#8220;an important product in helping the chain re-establish itself as the best-value supermarket in Australia&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very proud of the fact we&#8217;ve managed to reduce the cost of living for Australians for 10 years, which is hopefully what we can continue to do in the future as well,&#8221; Mr Cain was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Littleproud said Coles was &#8220;very proud of the fact it started $1 milk in January 2011 which has seen four dairy farms a week disappear since then&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn mid-2010, there were 7511 dairy farms in Australia and today there are 5669. 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