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This week the New Zealand meat industry celebrates 125 years of exporting meat to the world. The first shipment of 5000 chilled lamb bodies was exported to the United Kingdom. Their deaths represented the beginning of a bloody trail that has since spanned the globe. Today the industry slaughters and exports over 45 million sheep, cattle and deer every year. SAFE believes the mass loss of life and the immense level of animal suffering caused by the meat industry deserves a different type of recognition than a celebratory party. SAFE, along with other animal activists, will highlight other reasons for New Zealanders to take a special interest in the two day Wellington-based event this coming Friday. While celebrations will paint the bloody meat trade with glory and success, outside the conference venue the meat industry will be accused of contributing to some of the world’s most horrific diseases, environmental disasters and cases of animal cruelty. The meat industry will be implicated in contributing to acid rain, cancer, starvation, disease, air pollution, animal suffering, deforestation, land degradation, water pollution, animal slaughter, soil erosion, obesity, diabetes and species’ extinction. It’s a terrible list to be associated with but this is the case for Federated Farmers, Meat & Wool New Zealand, the New Zealand Meat Industry Association, the New Zealand Pork Industry Board, Deer Industry New Zealand, Retail Meat New Zealand, the New Zealand Beef and Lamb Marketing Bureau and even the Minister of Agriculture, Jim Anderton. SAFE will challenge the industry on Friday and last weekend launched a new site highlighting the benefits of a meat-free diet. Anthony Terry
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The New Zealand meat industry is ‘slicing’ up the earth and giving it away to a hungry meat-eating nation. That’s the
message to be creatively protrayed by SAFE campaigners this Friday in opposition to a conference that will celebrate 125
years of meat exports. The conference has been organised by the Beef and Lamb Marketing Bureau. SAFE will highlight
the detrimental impact farmed animals have on the Earth and cruelty involved in producing meat.
SAFE’s campaign director Hans Kriek says “It takes 60 per cent less land to produce the same amount of plant protein
compared to meat protein. Livestock production also wastes huge amounts of water. It takes 500 litres of water to
produce 1kg of potatoes, 2000 litres to produce 1kg of soybeans and a staggering 100,000 litres to produce 1kg of feedlot
beef. Nearly 50 per cent of New Zealand’s greenhouse gases are from methane and nitrous oxide emissions caused by livestock.
To save our Earth, we must consider quitting or at least reducing our meat consumption.”
