Job losses worry meat sector
New Zealand's meat processing industry says, while it supports moves away from coal, it has some major concerns about cuts to livestock numbers as proposed in the recent Climate Change Commission’s draft report.
The Hound understands MIE’s ‘our way or the highway’ attitude of pushing for meat sector reforms has turned off most of the meat companies, as well as many of the bureaucrats and politicians who they will need onside to get anything changed. This old mutt has observed how the MIE team have been quick to ‘diss’ anyone who dares not to agree with their worldview or questions their ideas, and he wonders if they will remain cantankerous and thin-skinned, as this has not helped their cause one iota.
