What next: Yoghurt for dogs — who knew that could be a thing?
Now we’ve heard everything
Chobani has just released a plain, low-fat and lactose-free yoghurt for dogs called Daily Dollop that’s “made with simple yet effective ingredients including skim milk, lactase and live yoghurt cultures”.
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Hmm — sound like the same ingredients you’d find in yoghurt for humans.
The company claims “Daily Dollop will help strengthen the bones and teeth of our four-legged friends”. But the devil is in the detail — it suggests yoghurt should be “slowly introduced to dogs’ daily food, allowing them to become accustomed to the taste”.
Hmm again — it sounds to us like yet another way of tapping into the rich vein of gold that is pampered pooches and the $2.6 billion gourmet pet food industry.
Good on them for thinking of other uses for dairy milk, but we’ll stick to the odd bone for our Country News hounds, thanks.
Oil be right
A couple of weeks back we ran a story about Cobram Estate being listed on the ASX, opening its shares to public investors, to help keep the company in Aussie hands.
Now they’re putting out a call for people to help them set a Guinness World Record title by taking part in the “largest virtual olive oil tasting ever”.
Apparently Spain has held the record since 2009, with 12,909 participants, but Cobram Estate reckons Australia can bring home oil gold.
The event will be held on Thursday, October 28 with Dr Joanna McMillan, chief oil maker Leandro Ravetti and Cobram Estate co-founder and chair Rob McGavin.
To take part, you register, pay $10 and get sent a tasting kit, which includes four oil samples, tasting glasses and tea (to cleanse the palate between samples). There are also a heap of prizes to be won.
Change for the better: Coles is replacing its plastic bread tags with recycled paper ones.
Coles is trialling the replacement of plastic bread tags with new cardboard varieties that are made from 100 per cent paper-based recycled content and are recyclable in kerbside recycle bins.
The trial will apply to 254 varieties of Coles Own Brand bread including in-store baked bread and pre-packaged loaves. Once rolled out nationally, this will result in the diversion of about 223 million pieces of plastic or 79 tonnes from landfill each year.
Coles’ Andy Mossop said the initiative was aligned with its zero waste goal, one of the focus areas of its new sustainability strategy.
“We’re listening to our customers who have told us in a recent survey that reducing waste to landfill and plastic packaging was the number one concern when it comes to environmental issues in retail, with 69 per cent of those surveyed saying it was of high importance to them,” he said.
“We are proud that this move towards cardboard bread tags means all components of our Coles Own Brand soft-plastic bread packaging will become recyclable.”
But there is a catch; to ensure the cardboard tags are recycled in kerbside recycling bins, people will need to place the tag securely inside other paper or cardboard products, such as a used envelope or paper bag. This will ensure the small tag doesn’t get lost in the recycling process and end up in landfill.
Coles said it was working with its bakery partners, including Goodman Fielder, on the plastic bread tag removal initiative.
