Live animal exports
Sir, —A news item on TV last evening showing the loading of live beef animals for export was followed by an interview with a union official who expressed concern at the loss of jobs for union
members. Even a union official must realise how completely inefficient the transport of live animals will be as, opposed to containers of processed meat. How then, can it be more profitable for a farmer to sell his product for live shipment, rather than for processing at a local freezing works? The answer is simple; an inefficient meat processing industry, highlighted by an excessive wage structure. Every strike, load-out ban, or stoppage instigated by union leaders in .the last 20 years has contributed to the fanners’ share of an export lamb being reduced from 66 per cent to less than 10 per cent, hence the rapidly declining numbers of lambs being produced, and the recent closing of several freezing works, with the resultant loss of thousands of jobs. The industry is doomed if improved efficiency cannot be obtained.—Yours, etc., G. A. INCH. May 17, 1988.
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