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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Ah, sorry… the “negative effects of the ban” are the deleterious effects on graziers. There are many farmers who had a flock worth $500k which is now worth $100k. Some large graziers are not breeding more sheep because they can’t sell the ones they have.

A lot of these operations are big businesses and in some cases the existing format just isn’t viable any more.

As I said I’m not very sympathetic because that’s just how things go if you want to run a business, but it’s definitely a big deal for some people.

For example, a farmer might be in their late 60s and saying “I’ve been working with sheep for 50 years and it’s all I know” and for their farm to continue they need to transition to cropping or some such.

One silly argument against live export that I heard some people parroting is that if Australia doesn’t do it some other country will and the standards of care for the sheep will be much lower than ours. That’s just bullshit IMO.

The requirement for live export is, as in all things, a money thing. It’s cheaper to ship them live because you don’t need refrigeration, and you don’t need Australian-Standards-Compliant abattoirs paying Australian wages.

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