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  Live chat with Emily Reeves, Campaign Manager HWC

  Thanks M&J for your post, you have highlighted an important message in the value of the chilled meat industry to the Australian economy.  The Handle with Care coalition is calling on the Australian government to end live exports and at the same time to work with industry and importing countries to expand the existing trade in chilled and frozen meat products.  

   

  Australia currently exports chilled meat to every country that it exports live animals to, and our chilled meat trade is growing every year.  This solution not only means humane treatment of our animals, but employment for slaughterhouse and process workers as we maximise the opportunity to ‘value add’ here in Australia.

   

  Exporting live animals exports Australian jobs.

   

  In 2003 the Australian Meat Workers Union issued a media release in opposition to the live export industry “on the basis of its destruction of Australian jobs, its inhumane treatment of the animals and the decimation of the meat processing industry.”

   

  Chilled meat exports are the way of the future and we call on the Government to take tangible and immediate steps towards this humane solution that protects Australian animals and Australian jobs.

  Posted 13 Oct 08