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From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)
In article , Bill Lucy
wrote:
>In article , splice{at}webbd.nls.net
>says...
>> 50 years ago we might have been characterised as lazy, when we could export
>> all we could produce (mainly wool, milk products and mutton) but the gravy
>> boat stopped a long time ago. Nowadays we're a small country a long way
>> from anywhere, and we have to work hard and provide excellence in order to
>> sell our products overseas. There's no tariff on any US made goods imported
>> into NZ, unlike the tariffs the US places on many NZ origin products. So
>> who's jealous of who, Gary? And I suspect you know it, which would explain
>> your bitterness.
>
>Interesting tidbit: The market for goat meat is so high that the US
>could not sustain an embargo of import. We have something like a 30 day
>supply.
Why goat meat?
I doubt you're getting much from NZ - we specialise in farm reared deer.
The meat is branded as "Cervena".
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