kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
Actually looks like we import 90-100k t total sheep meat and export about 100k t
Madness ! environmental vandalism and and a situation that results in our producers needing subs to stay in business
The problem is you have to provide what the public wants. Import some cuts and export others. Make the consumer eat the whole animal and they might give it up all together. If you ban imports the chances are you wont be able to export so you get too much of one thing and not enough of another. Which would be very wasteful.
I used to haul onions to a pack house here, I believe the top grades went to Europe the oversize to Asia and all the crap that was left got dumped on the local supermarkets cheap.
I suspect its the same with most things. Food miles are only part of the story.
Doesn't the UK export feed wheat but import milling wheat? Sounds crazy to me, make farmers grow milling wheat but there's perhaps a good reason for it?