Time to put vegetarians on the menu I reckon, or on a live transport ship to some place with cannibals.
EDIT ADDITION - Despite the last 2 generations of my family breeding cattle (and horses) I actually usually eat pork rather than beef. .. Reason/s? .. tastes better, and cheaper.
NB: Beef is just the first target on the veg nazi/vegan fundamentalist hit list. Next will be pork, then the price will increase. After that will be lamb/mutton, and not long aftyer that, chicken.
Make no mistake, veg nazis intend to prevent people consuming meat by destroying the industries which produce it.
And so are a genuine threat to the food chain. Time they got their own planet to phuk up and got off this one.
Nats lobby hard to destroy 'cattle tax' before it starts
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 865807757#
SENIOR Nationals are moving to scuttle an environmental certification scheme for beef producers backed by WWF and McDonalds.
The Nationals warn that the scheme will increase costs in the industry and that graziers who refuse to sign up could be locked out of beef markets.
Veteran Nationals senator Ron Boswell attacked the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, likening it to "green mail" and warning that it needed to explain the process for proving "sustainability" and the costs.
Senator Boswell will move for a Senate inquiry into the sustainability initiative as the Nationals' Senate candidate for Western Australia, Shane Van Styn, moved to make it an election issue.
Dubbing it a "cattle tax", Mr Van Styn said the certification scheme would fund global environmental groups to wage war on farmers in Australia.
The roundtable released its first draft guidelines last week.
They will frame a future definition of what constitutes a sustainable cattle farm.
The guidelines are expected to be adopted by retailers such as Coles and Woolworths as the minimum requirement for farmers wanting to supply them beef. McDonald's has said that globally, by 2016, it will buy and use only meat that can be endorsed and certified as having been produced sustainably.
The first guidelines released by the roundtable -- which included farmers, meat industry representatives, retailers and environmental groups such as WWF -- try to identify key areas from the farm gate to the abattoir that must be addressed to ensure production around the globe is environmentally sound, socially responsible and economically viable.
Senator Boswell said WWF had waged a war against the practices of Queensland farmers.
"Imagine WWF sitting down determining the environmental conditions that our producers are obliged to meet before they can market their cattle." He said WWF was no friend of farmers and would get greater leverage to force cattle producers down the path of more restricted practices and compulsory standards.
"I do not want to see them burdened with more cost and more paperwork and more unnecessary environmental obligations to keep WWF in business and provide a marketing point of difference for the likes of McDonalds," he said.
WWF Australia's chief executive Dermot O'Gorman said the roundtable's draft definition for sustainable beef paved the way for a truly sustainable future for production. "Australia's beef industry is already in the box seat to meet the demand for sustainable beef from around the world," he said.
"By taking further steps towards proving our products as clean and green, Australian producers will be well placed to be global leaders in the beef market.
"Australia already has one of the world's best traceability systems and for many years we have been (researching) . . . regenerative grazing management."
