is that if we jab animals, we somehow admit we have a problem and our livestock is contaminated
with badness, which means the export market for beefy stuff dries up.
strikes me if we stop importing beefy and eat it all here the problem is solved cos we wouldn't have any left over to export. also the badgers get to live. and we save a few bob shipping stuff all over the place.
or something.
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Wed 27 Feb 2008, 9:12,
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with badness, which means the export market for beefy stuff dries up.
strikes me if we stop importing beefy and eat it all here the problem is solved cos we wouldn't have any left over to export. also the badgers get to live. and we save a few bob shipping stuff all over the place.
or something.
UK Beef hasn't been allowed here (South Africa) for years.
I abhor the whole meat market but I believe that the biggest problem with spreading of diseases is the fact that abbatoirs are centralised these days and not slaughtered close to where they were reared.
Don't massive supermarket chains insist that animals are slaughtered at their own abbatoirs that are often located at the other end of the country from the originating farm?
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Wed 27 Feb 2008, 9:16,
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I abhor the whole meat market but I believe that the biggest problem with spreading of diseases is the fact that abbatoirs are centralised these days and not slaughtered close to where they were reared.
Don't massive supermarket chains insist that animals are slaughtered at their own abbatoirs that are often located at the other end of the country from the originating farm?
seems rather odd, given that all of our beef is nice and new and pretty healthy, we culled all the old stuff a few years back.
ultimately this whole nonsence, as mr toast pointed out, is about saving a few quid and bugger all to do with animal welfare or concern with anything other than someone's bottom line.
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ultimately this whole nonsence, as mr toast pointed out, is about saving a few quid and bugger all to do with animal welfare or concern with anything other than someone's bottom line.
which cause MASSIVE problems with all sorts of products.
I import food and it was amazing what was banned from LEAVING the UK.
Heinz sponge puddings! (contain milk products).
Anything that contained a certain percentage of milk products. No Ambrosia creamed rice either.

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Wed 27 Feb 2008, 9:28,
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I import food and it was amazing what was banned from LEAVING the UK.
Heinz sponge puddings! (contain milk products).
Anything that contained a certain percentage of milk products. No Ambrosia creamed rice either.

it does seem rather bizzare that you in south africa need to import something as basic as rice pud, notwithstanding that ambrosia is the best in the world ever, and that you guys can't eat home produced stuff from your cleaner than ours dairy herd. the world's gone bonkers.
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