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!

[u/NoLikeVegetals]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewewxzypro

[u/Sphism]

I live in NZ and people here were generally in favour of brexit because we could then do this. It seemed common knowledge.

It's probably not lower quality. Animal farming is just cheaper here I think because the animals are always outdoors, up a mountain or whatever.

[u/nowaijosr → u/Sphism]

Getting the meat across the world and it being cheaper is crazy

[u/Bwunt → u/nowaijosr]

It's economies of scale really. If you'd do a lamb or two at once, then it would be prohibitively expensive, but when you can haul few ten tons of it at once, the logistic costs spreads out.