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amanda starts with ... Please sign the petition and share with your friends and other forums! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/409/391/178/stop-charging-home-gardeners-for-buying-seeds-interstate-and-overseas/?cid=FB_TAF | About the Author amanda19 Leschenault (150km south of Perth) 28th June 2013 3:12pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author amanda19 Leschenault (150km south of Perth) 28th June 2013 3:13pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Harry Melbourne 28th June 2013 5:00pm #UserID: 4975 Posts: 46 View All Harry's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MaryT says... Done, Amanda. It is unreasonable to expect the consumer to pay a large fee for purchasing a packet of seeds, especially if the seeds are from a merchant who must have ensured that the seeds are clean and viable and not contaminated, as well as compliant to quarantine restrictions. This is an unfair tax on consumers. | About the Author MaryT Sydney 28th June 2013 5:36pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
amanda says... Thanks! If they are looking for dope seeds (??) then that's not the home gardeners problem. This fee is apparently to: check off the seed packet contents against a list of non-permissible seeds into WA..?? Not sure why that costs $56/15minutes....and if they don't open then packet at all - then what's the bloody point? It's the weirdest thing - and it's just all wrong. I agree MaryT - it will increase Un-declared traffic. So they could be sending legitimate and honest seed swapping underground. | About the Author amanda19 Leschenault (150km south of Perth) 28th June 2013 10:28pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
MaryT says... Amanda I do believe that the whole exercise is to discourage home growers from swapping/importing seeds by mail. Businesses will absorb any charges and pass them onto the consumer anyway. The real cost is food diversity; soon we'll go back to having to eat whatever is commercially profitable and that list will narrow. I know some people who grow a commercial crop in WA; they embrace the strict embargo of plants being imported into the state in case anything should come in and damage their crop. | About the Author MaryT Sydney 29th June 2013 7:23am #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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