EMPIRE MEAT

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 17 April 1930, Page 5

EMPIRE MEAT

SUPPLY SHRINKING FAST COMPETITION OF U.S.A. “Tlie Americans have eaten us out of hearth and home in Canada, so to .speak.” declares the London Times, explaining that Great Britain s supplies of meat from the rest of the Einpii-e and from South America are shrinking fast because of competition by tbe United States. Sir William Haldane, an authority Oil British meat supplies, explains that, the United States, formerly a great, beef-exporting country, lias now beeom ( > an importer of meat in vast quantities to feed her evergrowing population. The consequence has been that whereas Britain in 1025 got from Canada 110.000 cattle and 10.000,000 pounds of beef, she now gets nothing.

Not only this, but the TTvited States lias encroached on British snpplies from New Zealand and Australia. as well as invaded th P Sou!tl American market for canned beef. Parallel with this development there have been heavy reductions in the numbers of cattle in all beef producing countries. For example. Canada’s herds line been reduced 400.000 in fiv 0 years—with th e inevitable result, says the Times, that dearer prices must come in the future. The Times therefore urges British farmers to get back into tli P beef-raising industry. to breed high-grade cattle, so as to maintain the nation's -supplies of meat and tak,, advantage of .better prices than are at present.