A Cattleman’s answer

From the Australian Conservative; Beef Central has an interesting letter from a live export industry stakeholder in response to the ABC Four Corners program last week:

I would like to have the same time … to show you the other side of our industry. To show you what is really going on. In Australia there used to be thing about “A Fair Go”. You have gone with images provided by one person followed up by your investigative journalist who spent a week in Indonesia.

If you are going to have a position on the live cattle export trade then you should read the full response. UPDATE From Menzies House; Cyndi Bakalian, a small business feed owner, wrote this letter to Julia Gillard, begging her to reconsider the rash decision to ban live exports – a decision that will destroy her family business, and force her employees into unemployment: Read her letter here