Falklands: Sheep industry global downturn resurfaces debate on the abattoir

Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - 10:51 UTC

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The decision by the Falkland Islands Executive Council, and approved by the Standing Finance Committee, to provide additional financing of £1 million to the Falkland Islands Meat Company (FIMCO), has not been without controversy. Read full article

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Real problem is when the abbatoir was established the thinkers set their goals too high. Joining the EU accreditation system need not have happened. Wrongly calculating the surplus sheep availability against replacement stock and losses were badly calculated. Requiring a seasonal killing period was a mistake even though farmers said they could not hold surplus sheep that long.
Far to many employed in the industry eating up huge amounts of money.
Shipping is expensive. Far better to have scaled it down to the local market and stopped importing red meat from other countries.
Could and should have set up a pet food system for waste carcass products.
A whole lot of errors in a rush to get established listening to far too many experts.
Not looking at history.
It was obvious that also one day the product will become less available if we have a few bad planning years.
The prices are set high to cover these overhead costs which could be halved in a smaller scale.
Then more people would buy the product. Added to that there is a campaign to go green and not eat red meat. Stupid idea in a sheep producing country. Ah but that's experts for you.
Jan 23rd, 2024 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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portman
brian rowlands is right. the local taxpayer is funding the diet of both the overseas and local carnivores. if the fishing industry had been up and running in the 1950s it would not have been necessary to close ajax bay. the building of the abattoir cost £8m from public funds and operating it has cost on average £1/2m pa again from public funds. thanks mainly to the fishing industry for producing the bulk of the income necessary to subsidse the abottoir and other money draining initiatives!
Jan 23rd, 2024 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tænk
Good thing you got that Halal accreditation..., Kelpers...

- Now you can sell all your Halal Hogget Meat to them Muslim Kosovo Troops you are training in them Isles to kill Christian Serbian troops...

Capisce...?
Jan 23rd, 2024 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
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