Chinese meat ban likely won’t result in job losses: Canadian Cattlemen’s Association

“This really shows why there’s such a push on having different markets so we don’t rely on just one, though the efforts and time the government and the industry groups have put in to developing new markets, this is a really good reason why.”

Lowe thinks that the average farmer will not be hurt badly by these developments as products can always be moved around to different markets.

Only producers that have greatly altered their operations to accommodate specifically for the Chinese market will feel the pinch.

He says the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is getting to work and taking action.

“For the time being, all we can do is to keep hammering away at the federal government to get this resolved as soon as possible, or at least find out, for sure, what exactly went wrong. We don’t really know exactly what happened yet, so we can’t set a strategy until we know what happened.”

Lowe suggests that anyone in Southern Alberta who is effected by a potential meat ban should talk to their MP’s and MLA’s.

In the first quarter of 2019, Statistics Canada reports that over $63-million worth of beef and veal products were exported to China, making it the third largest market behind the United States and Japan.

China was also the third largest importer of Canadian pork at more than $310-million.

by David Opinko

Chinese meat ban likely won’t result in job losses: Canadian Cattlemen’s Association

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