Tuesday 14 April 2015

Halal: "picking a fight we don't need to have" - Barnaby Joyce

Good grief, barnyard Barnaby has actually said something coherent and relevant (that's him on the left holding the straw). Must unusual for the Lieberals. Although I'm diametrically opposed to everything Lieberal lately, I can do nothing but agree with him on this one (although I'm guessing a bit of his usual exaggeration in the mix - remember the $100 roasts under the carbon tax?).

The current furror by racist Australian bogans like Pauline Hansen and western Sydney rednecks, takes no import into what banning Halal meat would do to the entire Australian meat working industry. 

Typical brain dead morons. The world is in the grips of global warming, our gov hates poor people because they reckon it's all their fault, the economy is tanking under same illiterate gov, asylum seekers are dying in Australian concentration camps, but no..... We'll protest about Halal and Muslims FFS. 

Hey fuckwits, you're all being duped by Abbott. Wake up. Whilst you're raving about Halal he's got you over the bonnet fucking you all senseless.

Anyway, over to barnyard Barnaby:
The agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has issued a warning to colleagues who are against halal certification, saying picking a fight with Islamic export countries could triple the price of beef for Australian consumers. 

A number of Coalition MPs and senators have expressed concern about halal certification, claiming that money for the process goes to extremist clerics. 

Joyce said failing to get halal certification would effectively cut off large export markets for Australian meat products, and warned against “picking a fight that we never needed to have”. 

“Unless it’s halal certified, we can’t sell it. That means the whole processing line becomes unviable,” Joyce told reporters on Monday. 

“If we didn’t have the halal market in beef, that could really affect thousands of meat workers in Australia. 

“You want to be careful before putting all their jobs on the line by saying that we’re not going to participate in this range of markets.” 

He said the lack of competition for markets could drive up the price of beef. 

“We don’t want any unnecessary heat brought into this space because the only people who lose out in the end are us,” Joyce said. more  

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