Live Export Industry

The concerns for the 5% of the Australian population who are currently facing food insecurity are predominantly due to reduced access to nutritious food, particularly in rural and remote areas and low socio economic issues around affordability. However as a nation, Australia has more food than it needs and as such has numerous for opportunities for trade, including wheat, barley, diary and beef.

Anna Lappé’s book, Diet for a Hot Planet, discusses the impact that meat consumption has on the planet and our environment. It discusses how the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. She writes about how the way we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to our tables all

Australia exports approximately over 1million cattle and 2million sheep live every year, although the number fluctuates due to environmental conditions, international disputes and currency change this is the main statistic. Not too recently World Animal Protection and Animals Australia released shocking videos revealing their undercover investigations overseas and the horrific abuse these animals suffer. Australian live export laws are in place to prevent the abuse and to protect these animals, yet once in other countries borders, these laws dissipate and play no part in the treatment of the livestock they spent so much money on raising and keeping healthy. A lot of these animals do not even survive the shipment only to then be shoved into boiling car trunks for

I believe that there should be tougher restrictions on live animal exports. Live animal exports are cruel and inhumane; there is also the fact that we cannot justify our laws against animal cruelty being ignored when the animals leave our shores; surely we have a moral responsibility to ensure the ethical treatment of these poor creatures? Every year, millions of Australian animals including cows, goats and sheep are sent off on an overcrowded boat to countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and the Middle East. If they survive the horrific journey through treacherous seas, they are met with brutality and appalling conditions, to eventually end up getting roughly slaughtered by people with very different ethics from us in a lengthy drawn out process.

Today in the US, people do not consume horse meat on a whole sale basis. But because many other counties do, the exporting of horse meat is a huge industry. When the ban was in place, US horses were being transported to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered instead. From 2006 to 2010 the increase in horses being exported to Canada and Mexico was 148 and 660 percent. They are loaded up on trailers and shipped across the boarders, often times going days without food or water until they reach their destination. The regulations, or lack thereof, are different than in the US. (Shesgreen)

Animal welfare conditions overseas would decline if Australian stopped exporting livestock. Australia is the only country in the world that actively works in overseas markets to improve animal welfare conditions. Approximately 95% of Australian cattle in Indonesia are now stunned pre-slaughter, up from less than 10% in 2011.

Western diet and culture are responsible for the increase of global meat consumption, over the last few decades. This is why the global trend of moving “towards concentrated animal feeding operations is expected

It is no secret that meat plays an enormous role in the diet and culture of many countries. Each year, approximately 56 billion land animals are raised and killed worldwide for human consumption (Edwards). By 2050, this figure is predicted to double, making animal production growth rate higher than any other agricultural sub sector in the developed world. Over the last decade, small and medium livestock farms have been replaced by large industrialized factory farms, raising large numbers of livestock indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost (Edwards). These sentient beings suffer from intense confinement and as research reveals, we are being forced to either change our ways or face devastating consequences as discussed in this paper. Meat, egg, and milk production are not only focused on the slaughtering of farm animals, but the animal agriculture sector also includes feed grain production and energy expenditures to transport feed, live animals, and animal products, which requires large amounts of

Rising temperatures could have a major impact on traditional foods of Aboriginals, such as fish and raw meats. Temperature changes in the transport or storing of these sorts of foods can greatly increase the possibility of food-borne toxins and diseases, such as Salmonella (Furgan & Seguin, 2006). This could lead to less consumption of traditional foods by Aboriginals (Furgan & Seguin,

Unlike morals which are an individual's principles of what is 'right and wrong', ethics are a system of morals influenced by an external source, often society or religion. Live animals exports involve the transport of livestock, typically sheep and cattle internationally for commercial purposes. Animals are usually transported by road before boarding ships at ports and then travelling overseas. Live animal exports are an ethical issue in Australia, which has a live export industry that has existed for over 30 years, and has the largest industry of its kind in the world. In 2014, Australia exported 1.38 million cattle and 2.18 million sheep and was valued at over a billion dollars [ALEC, 2015]. Live exports have been a contentious issue in recent

Australia’s primary exports lie in natural resources and agricultural commodities (Siriwardana, 2015). The Australian beef industry is the sixth largest exporter in the world where average beef exports from Australia are approximately 1.3 million tonnes, amounting to approximately 65% of total beef production (Tozer and Marsh, 2012). In a global context, Australia is the sixth largest beef producer and the second largest beef exporter, therefore it would be most efficient for Australia to trade with other nations who produce and export beef less effectively (Meat & Livestock Australia, 2016).

In most third world countries meat is usually scarced. Even if there is meat available, it is extremely expensive and is eaten on special occasions. Here in the states and most first world countries, meat is found in abundance and can be cheaper than plant produce. The large production in the meat industry made meat cheaper. A surprising fact that “70 percent of grain produced is fed to animals” (Motavalli). The amount of grain put into an animal and the amount of meat that is produced is less than the grains. The same applies for fresh water. Hypothetically, the grain could be able to feed starving communities in third

Global meat production rose to a new peak of 308.5 million tons in 2013, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a more than fourfold increase over the last five decades. Even more startlingly, meat production has grown 25-fold since 1800 (Horrigan, Lawerence &Walker, 2002). Globally, agriculture utilizes nearly 70 per cent of the world 's available freshwater. One-third of that percentage is used to grow grains to feed to livestock (ECOS, 2014). While the global meat industry provides food and a livelihood for billions of people, it also has significant environmental and health consequences for the planet. Over half of the water used in meat production

On the global scale, it is estimated that Muslims range from 1.2 up to 1.57 billion of the world’s total population (Bello, 2005). Of that number, more than 60 of them are based in Asian countries, which include Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Darussalam, and Indonesia, among other countries. Indonesia on its part is ranked among the countries with the highest percentage of Muslims, who account approximately 88% of the total population (Vignali, 2001). Therefore, they represent the majority of the 235 million Indonesians. The remaining percentage is occupied by other religions such as the Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, and other Christian dominions. This makes Indonesia a readymade market for international export of Halal foods including Halal meat. In the words of Zakaria and Abdul-Talib (2010), before international meat producing countries such as Australia explore new markets in Indonesia, they need to put into consideration several factors. This paper seeks to present a web page information on how to market Halal meat products from Australian business organizations that are specialized in production and marketing of meat products. The paper will achieve its stated objective by discreetly analyzing the status of the Indonesian meat market, contextualizing on the Indonesian regulatory approach of certifying Halal products, and discussing the marketing mix strategies that are required to control the Halal meat market in Indonesia.

Consumption of meat by humans creates several problems. First and foremost, raising animals for food compromises the environment. For example, it takes a large amount of natural resources to sustain the meat industry. The use of water, land, and food to raise animals for human consumption is not an efficient use of our limited resources. In contrast, it is more efficient to feed humans directly than to use land, food, and water to feed animals to be used as food. There are shortages of fertile land, clean water, and food in several third world countries. Many of these countries’ resources are allocated to produce feed for animals in developed countries around the world. As a result, the citizens of these countries are stricken with water and food shortages, while their crops are feeding cattle from across the globe. However, this problem can be solved by adopting a vegan diet. The vegan diet will allow a more efficient use of resources that in turn can be used to feed starving men, women, and children throughout the world. Consequently, more people in the world could be fed if the land used to grow feed for animals was used to grow food for humans.