PeaNuts, Dick Smith, and Religious Nuts.
I usually buy Dick Smith Foods when I am able, as these foods are designed to be in markets where there are no longer any Australian owned alternatives.
Dick Smith is an Aussie icon, a heartwarming rags to riches tale, who is a very good friend of skeptics world-wide, and who is sensibly against foreign corporate domination of any domestic market to the exclusion of Aussie firms.
So, it was with curiosity that I casually read the label on a Dick Smith foods “smooth” peanut butter jar whilst crunching on my morning toast, and the name of manufacturing company jogged my creaky early-morning brain-cells into something resembling alarm.
“Australian Health & Nutrition Association Ltd” rang a bell for some reason. Sounds innocent enough…
But, I looked them up on the companies register, and lo! I was right!
Australian Health & Nutrition Association Ltd (trading as Sanitarium Health Food Company) is a trustee of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
ADVENTIST® and SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST® are the registered trademarks of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600 USA.
Seventh-day Adventist Church (SPD) owns 100% of Australian Health & Nutrition Association Ltd †1, who are therefore not liable to pay tax on the income!
(This lays aside the legal question of how a fully owned company of a church can also be a trustee of said church. I’ll leave that to the legal eagles.)
Like most other cults based on a tiny group of backward illiterate schizophrenic desert goatfuckers’ stolen ravings, these people make claims that are more than certifiably INSANE.
You may well choose to check your shopping closely in the future.
I, for one, do not intend to FURTHER subsidise these misogynistic mad-men, as they already steal my taxes.
†1 http://adventist.org.au/
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