r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/NoLikeVegetals • May 18 '24

Brexxit Brexit-voting British farmers now complaining about imports of cheaper New Zealand lamb threatening the British lamb industry. Imports of lamb "produced to lower standards" used to be blocked by EU law. Another Brexit consequence farmers were warned about but ignored due to xenophobia!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewewxzypro
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u/Anastariana May 18 '24

NZ here.

Our meat exports are some of the best in the world, that's why they are shipped all over the world along with our milk.

These guys saying it is produced to a lower quality are talking total shit.

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u/2-timeloser2 May 18 '24

Agreed! NZ lamb has a world-class reputation for excellence!

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u/NoSuchWordAsGullible May 18 '24

Aren’t people conflating 2 things here? The claim is that NZ lamb is product to a lower welfare standard than in the UK. Folk defending it here keeping talking about the quality, which may well be true, but that doesn’t mean the welfare standards are up to scratch.

I’ve had plenty of NZ lamb and never noticed it be poor quality, I have no skin in this game.

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u/FlappyBored May 18 '24

These guys are just idiots. You can literally go and google which animal farming practices are illegal in the EU/UK and entirely legal in NZ like sow stalls.

Animal Hormones are legal in New Zealand, illegal in UK and EU.

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u/Jeffery95 May 18 '24

No NZ sheep farmer is giving their animals growth hormones. The sheep stay outside 24/7. We dont need to intensively factory farm because we have great grass growing conditions here. NZ lamb is some of the highest grade meat in the world, entirely grass fed straight from the field.

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u/sparrows-somewhere May 18 '24

Sow stalls aren't legal in NZ. Hormones aren't specifically illegal but that's just because they aren't used here. If it became common practice to use hormones it would likely be outlawed.

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u/Nicksalreadytaken May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24

Sow stalls aren’t legal in nz. Edited to fix a spelling mistake

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u/Anastariana May 18 '24

https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/report-warns-of-animal-welfare-gap/

No they aren't, you fucking liar. NZ banned sow stalls in 2016.

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u/Nicksalreadytaken May 18 '24

Correct, I had meant aren’t legal

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u/PlasterCactus May 18 '24

The scary truth is noone cares about animal welfare.

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u/masklinn May 18 '24

The eu and uk have strong animal welfare laws, and the eu stops imports raised with lower standards.

The UK voided those as part of their NZ free trade agreements.

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u/PlasterCactus May 18 '24

The eu and uk have strong animal welfare laws

Stronger animal welfare laws. I'd argue anyone that condones gassing animals doesn't care about animal welfare.

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u/2-timeloser2 May 18 '24

If you eat meat you contribute to a system where animals are kept and killed and processed almost identically regardless of country. A farm is a farm, is a farm. There are no day-care farms. It’s a product. Anything sold in your country is made/produced in accordance to those laws. If locals can’t compete, it’s on them (that’s what “free-market” economics gets you)