The Pipe According to Fonterra

The Pipe According to Fonterra

To be honest I have no idea when the pipe first featured in the Fonterra saga thats overwheming us at the moment.

The media frenzy around this most unfortunate episode leaves one grasping for air a little and it seems "the pipe" has been thrown through the waves in the same way the rope sped through the surf at life saving training. Just keep the melee in the press moving at all costs, it'll detract anyone from asking the hard questions.

My question is very simply – is it right to label "the pipe" as the source of contamination? Who at Fonterra has the proof to say it was? The pipe can't defend itself, well I don't think it can, but then you never know. So if "the pipe" was the root cause of the problem then at least tell us a bit more about it, it's slovenly ways, a bit of it's history even, how old is it, under whose management did it fall?

It seems to me that "the pipe" is definitely off limits which really raises the question. Was there a human element involved at this point of the saga and not "the pipe"?   Possibly "the pipe" is actually innocent and not to blame at all?

In time the whole story will come out  but meanwhile we will be subjected to volumes of whys, maybes, customers best interests at heart stuff and all that goes with patching up a media disaster.

Now this raises another point,  how do the Fonterra suppliers feel?   Those who milk their herds day in day out, in fact most twice a day; probably a tad disappointed to say the least I would suggest, in fact well & truly p .... on (& off) and not just at pit level either!

Let down they have been by a company they were proud to be part of.  After all they are the grass roots and shareholders (am I right?) of the company; maybe Fonterra's executives in charge of crisis control have been in contact with them and expressed their concern and support; one would certainly hope they have.

Yes its great to be the biggest and the best, and why not, its taken a long time to get there and a hell of an investment in time, support, commitment and belief from many topped off by executive salary packages and their performance payments that truly represent the skills of those involved umm? Yeah right just didn't seem right to use in this context!

Yes a big part of Fonterra's success started with the cowshed crooners, so don't let them down Fonterra  by shifting the blame to a humble pipe . . . front up.

Oh yes I wonder if that TV ad where one tanker turns right and the other left will see one giving way to the other!  Hope I have the right ad!  The shine of the stainless steel tanks indicates a certain proudness, be a shame for them to lose their sheen! 

Might treat the the girls to my playlist in the morning, the news seems to be depressing them, thats if I can  move the needlle off the National Program on the old man's wireless!