Uruguay's meat exports in four months total 550m with beef the main item, 454m

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Uruguay exported meat, offal, meat products and by-products worth 550 million dollars in the year up to 18 April, 8% more than the same period of 2014. Beef exports totaled 454 million in the first months of the year, with the main buyers including China, member countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the European Union, Israel and MERCOSUR countries. Read full article

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Conqueror
But what about methods? It's hard to find information. It's all very well for Uruguayan cattle to be grass-fed, but what about the rest of the meat production process. I no longer purchase New Zealand meat products ever since I found out that everything at New Zealand slaughterhouses has to have some arabic gibberish muttered over it and is then left to bleed out. There's no stunning. Some people might ask what it matters. After all, we only eat meat once it's dead. Does it matter how it gets that way? I think it does. If you're driving along and see a dead sheep at the side of the road, obviously the result of roadkill, do you stop, pick it up, throw it in your vehicle and decide to have a barbecue? Do you eat horse? Cats? Dogs? Rats? How about other humans? Humans are omnivores. We can eat many things. It's all meat, isn't it? Some have principles. I like to eat various types of meat. But not if the animal had to be made to suffer unnecessarily in the process.

There is very little difference between the slaughter for kosher and for halal purposes. Research suggests that kosher slaughter in Uruguay is unnecessarily cruel.

As matters stand, I would no more purchase Uruguayan meat than I would New Zealand meat.

Fortunately, I see little sign of Uruguayan meat in my part of the UK. But Uruguay needs to research its customer base!
May 02nd, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
Bugger me , I thought NAFTA was petrol in Castellano
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Briton
When you enlarge the picture of the argy government,
one immediately notices the similarity with a bunch of cows,

, just mooing like.....moo
May 02nd, 2015 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 3 Briton

I'll have you know that cows have a degree of intelligence!

Not much mind but apart from Vasquez, far more than the rest of The Broad Fraud.

But I agree with Conqueror, cows are sentient beings and deserve to be stunned before being bled.

If the fucking Muslims don't like it I suggest they ALL be bled to death, and the sooner the better in the UK, starting with the crooks in Tower Hamlets.
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Briton
you both have my support/
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