Australian cattle are much more likely to be pasture-fed free range than UK cattle. End of story.
It’s certainly no surprise that UK consumers are generally ignorant of meat production.
Michael Joseph
2 years ago
What?! This piece is nonsense. As one of the comments below has mentioned, Australian cattle is far more likely to be pasture-fed than in the UK. There is also way less factory farming in Australia than in the UK. And no, citing the RSPCA, an organisation that is rapidly turning itself into PETA, doesn’t cut it either.
Correct about RSPCA.
They have an arsenal of headline-grabbing attack videos ready for every country, including the UK. They don’t so much care for the welfare of beef cattle, as want to destroy the beef industry altogether.
In Australia, “Animals Australia” activists in league with the taxpayer-funded broadcaster ABC destroyed the valuable live export trade to Indonesia after political agitation based on a wildly misrepresented report on Indonesian slaughterhouses. http://www.farmonline.com.au/story/3623727/4-corners-fall-out-wrecking-live-export-industry-part-one/
Extract:
Of 700 abattoirs in Indonesia, the vast bulk of Australian cattle were sent to 100. With all its taxpayers’ dollars the ABC exposed a problem that it documented in just 12 meatworks. That remains a very serious matter but in prosecuting the case for Animals Australia the ABC badly misrepresented Australia’s northern cattle industry and damaged its reputation. It created tension in our national relationship with Indonesia. Hundreds of Australian and Indonesian businesses, including 82 cattle properties owned and run by Top End Aboriginal communities have been derailed.
As meat consumption continues to grow in Africa and Asia, what a bunch of middle class vegetarians in UK think about it is increasingly irrelevant.
But so is beef irrelevant, mostly, to this trade deal which covers a wide range of issues and products and does not rely on changing UK or Australian consumer law to force feed the UK population with hormones. Although perhaps they might benefit.
Albireo Double
2 years ago
The only person I pay much attention to to when they discuss animal husbandry is a farmer. My experience is that they know what they are doing and that their care for their animals is understanding, thorough, and sincere.
To cite the RSPCA simply irritates and alienates me, as to describe them either as charitable or caring for animals is largely a misnomer in my view. I have no regard for anything that they say nowadays and I stopped donating to them many years ago go when they started showing signs of wokeness, corruption and and mission creep.
Our farmers are among the best in the world and quite capable of operating in a market which is also served by any other country in the world. This article is rather alarmist and seems to be be a slave to an agenda, in my view
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ralph bell
2 years ago
As the human populations get bigger and richer, their consummation must not be at the cost of farmed animals welfare.
Elizabeth Fairburn
2 years ago
Simple answer – Buy British.
John Hicks
2 years ago
“You too can eat a kangaroo like many fine Australians do!”
Overherd.
Chris Wheatley
2 years ago
See the essay on Jewishness.
Alka Hughes-Hallett
2 years ago
My eyes were opened to disastrous animal rights in America generally 3 yrs ago & I have been mostly vegan since. This disassociation with another creature’s plight and our treatment of it while living sickened me. Only if roles were reversed!
While I agree that as a species, meat has supplemented our diet in the past but it was never a main stay like it is now. There was hunting & competition for it. With 7b & counting mouths wanting ready made meat, the situation both environmentally & for animal welfare is in dire straits. The more we farm meat, the more stressed the environment, it’s unsustainable.
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Stephen Follows
2 years ago
They’re also very cruel to cricket balls.
James Chater
2 years ago
The first piece I’ve read on UnHerd where I find it hard to disagree with one word.
I wish people would eat less meat, for the benefit of themselves and for animals. The only way that’s going to happen is by keeping prices as high as possible so that welfare standards can be maintained.
No one needs to eat more than 2 to 3 portions of red meat or chicken per week.
Of course this most decadent Conservative government ever will get round UK animal welfare standards. They will make sure it gets buried or mangled in the next manifesto*.
As this article implies most people don’t care about animal welfare…
*How depressing – I have resigned myself to more & more years of these depraved clowns.
Australian cattle are much more likely to be pasture-fed free range than UK cattle. End of story.
It’s certainly no surprise that UK consumers are generally ignorant of meat production.
What?! This piece is nonsense. As one of the comments below has mentioned, Australian cattle is far more likely to be pasture-fed than in the UK. There is also way less factory farming in Australia than in the UK. And no, citing the RSPCA, an organisation that is rapidly turning itself into PETA, doesn’t cut it either.
Correct about RSPCA.
They have an arsenal of headline-grabbing attack videos ready for every country, including the UK. They don’t so much care for the welfare of beef cattle, as want to destroy the beef industry altogether.
In Australia, “Animals Australia” activists in league with the taxpayer-funded broadcaster ABC destroyed the valuable live export trade to Indonesia after political agitation based on a wildly misrepresented report on Indonesian slaughterhouses.
http://www.farmonline.com.au/story/3623727/4-corners-fall-out-wrecking-live-export-industry-part-one/
Extract:
The live export trade is an obscenity.
As meat consumption continues to grow in Africa and Asia, what a bunch of middle class vegetarians in UK think about it is increasingly irrelevant.
But so is beef irrelevant, mostly, to this trade deal which covers a wide range of issues and products and does not rely on changing UK or Australian consumer law to force feed the UK population with hormones. Although perhaps they might benefit.
The only person I pay much attention to to when they discuss animal husbandry is a farmer. My experience is that they know what they are doing and that their care for their animals is understanding, thorough, and sincere.
To cite the RSPCA simply irritates and alienates me, as to describe them either as charitable or caring for animals is largely a misnomer in my view. I have no regard for anything that they say nowadays and I stopped donating to them many years ago go when they started showing signs of wokeness, corruption and and mission creep.
Our farmers are among the best in the world and quite capable of operating in a market which is also served by any other country in the world. This article is rather alarmist and seems to be be a slave to an agenda, in my view
As the human populations get bigger and richer, their consummation must not be at the cost of farmed animals welfare.
Simple answer – Buy British.
“You too can eat a kangaroo like many fine Australians do!”
Overherd.
See the essay on Jewishness.
My eyes were opened to disastrous animal rights in America generally 3 yrs ago & I have been mostly vegan since. This disassociation with another creature’s plight and our treatment of it while living sickened me. Only if roles were reversed!
While I agree that as a species, meat has supplemented our diet in the past but it was never a main stay like it is now. There was hunting & competition for it. With 7b & counting mouths wanting ready made meat, the situation both environmentally & for animal welfare is in dire straits. The more we farm meat, the more stressed the environment, it’s unsustainable.
They’re also very cruel to cricket balls.
The first piece I’ve read on UnHerd where I find it hard to disagree with one word.
I wish people would eat less meat, for the benefit of themselves and for animals. The only way that’s going to happen is by keeping prices as high as possible so that welfare standards can be maintained.
No one needs to eat more than 2 to 3 portions of red meat or chicken per week.
Of course this most decadent Conservative government ever will get round UK animal welfare standards. They will make sure it gets buried or mangled in the next manifesto*.
As this article implies most people don’t care about animal welfare…
*How depressing – I have resigned myself to more & more years of these depraved clowns.