AR-News: (AU) Live meat trade gets inside run

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Richard Yallop
March 22, 2004 
FEDERAL and state governments favour the live animal export trade and erect 
barriers to exports of processed meat, a report commissioned by the West 
Australian Government warns.

The scathing report, by the ministerial taskforce into cattle and sheepmeat 
processing in Western Australia, was delivered in December to state Agriculture 
Minister Kim Chance, who is still considering his response. The report 
questions the number of jobs created by the live export trade. 
Government and industry claim 9000 jobs have been created by the trade, which 
has grown rapidly in the past decade, but the report found exporters of live 
animals employ "relatively small numbers of staff". 
The report found governments distorted the competition between the live 
export trade and processed meat exporters by subjecting the processed meat sector 
to taxes and charges not levied on live exporters, and by requiring higher 
standards of the processed meat sector. 




full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9036098%255E2702
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