ROGER UNDERWOOD

IN RESPONSE TO BINDAREE BEEF'S CALL FOR COMPENSATION

This is all very good but the live export trade shouldn’t have been banned at all. After 6 months of no trade do you really think Australia will be able to just pick up the reins and continue where it left off from. Once you lose a market it is nearly impossible to get it back. Bindaree Beef of all people should know this. The Indonesian market will be filled by other countries and they will fight to keep it just as we should now.
 
It is now common knowledge that there are abattoirs in Indonesia that slaughter cattle humanely and according to International welfare standards. These abattoirs and all livestock producers are now being penalized for doing the right thing while nothing changes at the rouge plants and the cruelty goes on.  
 
Not for one moment do I condone the cruelty that was shown, but the kneejerk reaction to this will have far more repercussions to all producers than any amount of compensation.
 
Roger Underwood