Falklands plans to export 30.000 lambs this season from upgraded abattoir
The Falkland Islands Meat Company (FIMCo) may export up to 30,000 lambs in the coming season compared to 26,000 last year in an abattoir successfully upgraded by local companies, reports the Penguin News in this week’s edition.
Manager John Ferguson said major works undertaken by Stewart Construction and Energise will contribute to cost-savings for the company.
Last season the export sales of meat and skins allowed the company to make a small profit for the first time, and as a result “no subsidy has been requested for this financial year,” said Mr Ferguson.
Speaking of the works, Mr Ferguson said, “These are the remaining works of the planned upgrade and we combined them to get it all completed, so we would have the operational cost-savings, efficiencies and of course ability to process skins and red offals properly for export.
“It was a major piece of work, again involving Ian Stewart Construction and Energise FI plus Approved Design Ltd from UK for the new slaughter line and Reid Steel for the buildings.”
The work comprises two additional carcase chillers (extra capacity for 650+ sheep/lamb carcases) covered livestock yards extension, to hold approx 1,000- 1,200 sheep/lamb and 20+ cattle in total and an upgrade sheep slaughter line from manual to a more modern ‘moving’ line to improve efficiencies and increase productivity.
Additional covered space for holding palletised sheepskins and another to protect refrigeration plant has also been created plus an improved livestock unloading and turning area, along with upgrade drainage from plant to beach.
He said, “At present, we are several weeks behind overall project completion, but with many aspects done and operational, costs are expected to remain within budget.
“The completion of the upgrade will put Sand Bay into the type of plant and facilities that should have been built initially for exporting the full range of products required to make the meat industry viable from the Falkland Islands.
“Much appreciation is to be given to FIG and the FIMCo Board for their support during the past few years to achieve this. It also proves that local construction companies can successfully deliver these types of works.”
Mr Ferguson said Falklands lamb can be sold successfully because it is “lean, with excellent eating qualities,” although currently “there is a lack of confidence in what the market prices will be in say 3-6 months when the product reaches the end user.”
As a result some prices are below last years levels. The sixteen week export season began this week and an impressive 58 strong team will deal with both the export and local market. Lamb will be sold to UK, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, Spain, Egypt and Hong Kong.
Manager of the abattoir John Ferguson told Penguin News that around 42 farms plan to provide the lambs while 60 farms are likely to provide both sheep and lambs.
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Don't make the same mistake, Falklands. And don't forget to properly label your meat. If it's halal or doesn't say, I won't buy it. I do support you, but I will not support production of halal meat.
30.000 animals ……. That’s about 300 tons of processed meat….. ~600,000 U$D at today’s prices.
I’ll have to keep my eyes wide open at the European supermarkets to spot that excellent Halal slaughtered produce from Malvinas.
Would like to organize a “blind test” against the world’s best lamb (and my personal favorite)…………., Icelandic lamb.
Hmmmmm………… All this mutton talk gave me a craving ……I think I’ll cook a nice Smalehovud on Sunday :-)
the reason I suggested the islanders export sheep meat for the Islam market is because it is still customary for sheep in the Islands to be killed by having their throats cut. The only modification the islanders would need to make is to bring a Muslim religious person to the islands to supervise the slaughter then the meat will be good for the european Halal market.
They do this in Argentina now to serve the Muslim people in the cities.
Long Live the Falklands.
May I ask....... How do you slaughter them so?
Do you bore them to death by reading aloud Papamoa's, Conqueror's or Briton's coments aloud to them?
No you tell them one of your amusing comments works every time!!!
HAH HAH HAH.
Long Live the Falklands.
The comment at number one was a very good quality comment,
Thinking abt it,
But as the man with the thinking cap knows all,
Then perhaps he can tell us how you kill sheep,
As 95% of us mortals no not .
Throwing them out of aircraft will do the trick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw2DdoskPY
Pity the poor sods thrown out of the argie planes didnt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg
Just an innocent joke to show that, even you, an “Abattoir knowing Kelper” can get things terribly wrong……..
Sheep are, all over the world, slaughtered by cutting their throats……
You want them alive so that that little heart of theirs can pump all that nasty blood out; you know?
I was referring to the estancias or farms. Every year many farms in the islands have to reduce the number of Sheeps on their land and these animals go to waste. The method of killing them is usually by cutting the throat. These animals are not considered good for meat in the islands but in Asian cooking the meat is good because of the way of cooking with spices and tenderisng processes. And I have noticed that in Britain especially sheep meat or mutton is impossible to buy for muslims and they have to import nearly all of it.
I won't mention it again though.
You're partly right- sheep on farms killed for home consumption do usually get their throats cut. Culls are usually shot as there are so many of them, but it does seem like a waste. Some people send cull sheep to the abattoir as there is a market of sorts, but I don't know what. It's a shame because mutton is fantastic meat if you cook it right. I'd add tagine as a good way to cook it. Falkland Islanders do still eat a lot of mutton generally. When we go abroad we find it hard to get.
When our Muslim surgeon wants meat he goes along and says the prayer himself!
Sure sticky and the brits were happy about that!!
“The years 1979-1981 marked a high point in uk-Argentina military cooperation”
books.google.ca/books?id=5j1_TWwZFNAC&pg=PA92&dq=thatcher+sold+weapons+to+the+argentine+military+junta+in+1980&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zAURT9LeMvSt0AGXh9jRCg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=thatcher%20sold%20weapons%20to%20the%20argentine%20military%20junta%20in%201980&f=false
Your a funny guy, we sell you arms and you use them on your own people and thats our fault?
Could MK or JF or someone else from Sand Bay tell me please? It's got me wondering now.
Immobilize the animal using a captive bolt stunner or other provided device. The stunner may be placed either at a point in the center of the forehead or centered immediately behind the pole. The stunner should be held firmly against the heat at the time of firing. (The purpose for immobilizing the animal is the render the animal unconscious. We don't want to stop the heart because we need it to pump the blood out when ensanguinating.)
Release the immobilized animal from the restraining chute and shackle by one hind shank at a point below the hock.
Hoist to convenient height for exsanguination
Exsanguination. With a sterilized knife, make an incision in the hide just anterior to the point of the brisket and extend to 12-18 inches toward the anterior end of the jaw. Keeping the incision on the center line, thrust the point of the knife upward behind the breast bone (6-8 inches deep). This will sever the carotid artery and jugular vein providing a thorough bleed.
Remove the head. Start at the exsanguination incision and skin ....
Thicko is talking non sense again...
You must be one of those new generation Stanley city slickers……!
Why don’t you pick the phone or go to the pub and ask anybody from camp…..?
You could even read the description at (26), generously rendered by “Frank the Yank ”.
1) You stun (or not) the animal.
2) You cut its throat whilst the animal is alive so its heart can pump the blood out.
3) The animal bleeds to death.
4) You process the carcass.
Is it so difficult to understand?
I think I will settle for a lentil burger tonight...
They feed them into a compartment on a revolving wheel that decends in a gas chamber.
They hang the carcases & collect the blood which is sold to make plasma, l was told.
Apart from bacon, l don't like pigmeat much.
Sheepmeat is far superior.
This is a fantastic economic and political opportuntiy for the Islanders - don't forget my friends you need all the support you can get now.
Long live the Falklands.
Have you been to the islands?
Yuppp............
That is a complete and utter fabrication of the truth beyond anything even half believable. I have LIVED in both Birmingham(Two and a half years) and Leicester(Six months) so i know from my personal experience that what you've just stated is utter nonsense.
There is a large Muslim population in Birmingham, Larger than Leicester i'd say. There are large areas that you'll see with mostly Muslims in them. But nowhere in the region that you have claimed.
I must stop using the BBC and the Daily Telegraph as a reliable and truthful source of information so thank you for warning me.
www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2005/10/10/al_leicester_backgrounder_feature.shtml
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/5994047/Muslim-Europe-the-demographic-time-bomb-transforming-our-continent.html
Sharia law spreads through Britain -
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16522447
It has been pulled time and time again about its reporting, but just ignores it,
The BBC thinks it is untouchable, their for it seems to think it can do as it pleases,
It normally does,
And the government fails to rein it in.
That’s about it .
.
Used to really enjoy the BBC Far Eastern Service, but they do put their foot in their mouth sometimes.
They announced the Para's positions & intentions at Goose Green.
Gave the Argentines vital information.
Someone's head should have rolled for that one.
They announced the Para's positions & intentions at Goose Green” ... during the conflict?
don’t get wrong they produce great programs,
And a channel without adverts is great when watching films,
But sometimes they just go to far .
Thats what they did alright, as “news”.
The Argentine lntelligence Service was monitoring the BBC & other sources of course.
Naturally, that was their job.
We did it too.
Argentine lntelligence picked it up & passed the information on to their forces at Goose Green.
Forewarned is forearmed.
We lost a lot of men.
Personally l would have charged the guilty ones in the BBC as traitors.
They are indeed lucky that l am not their Judge.
That's war.
judge judy [USA
and
judge Isolde [UK]
and indeed they are were very lucky .
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