*collected by federal government.*

Exactly Gertrude, collected by the Govt, levies paid for
by farmers. Now for once in your life get off your little
butt and learn about what MLA actually do, where the money
comes from and where it is spent!

As this thread shows, you don't have a clue what is actually
happening in agriculture. The Gold Coast lifestyle is
clearly too isolating from the real world that the rest
of us live in farming.

I make my point again. 57 million for promotion of meat,
600 thousand for live exports promotion. What is your
problem?

Time to leave the thread again I only came in because of the insult needless heedless insult.
PALE finds much to laugh at me because I think ,truly think as most do yet pelican has become just one of those who have suffered for free thought.
Rational people surely do not think animal welfare is served by such as PALE?
Post after post wanders into a lost land of turning more away from their wants and wishes than toward it.
Count the insulted posters in OLO just because they questioned one group, elections? 4 short months ago count them pale you had no more influence over a different government.
Yet you truly think this one is evil because they are not hearing you?
Get used to it they are here for a long time Socialistic?
My question was to be can you truly be so far from reality? but you answer it every day here in this forum yes indeed you can.

"Promotion of red meat has around 57 million dollars allocated to it.

"Promotion of live exports has 600'000$ allocated to it.

"So would you prefer if an even amount was spent on both?

"Think carefully now Gertrude, before you answer this one :)" (The Mouth)

a) Total Annual Revenue for chilled and frozen meat (exports only) = $6 billion
Estimated total Annual Revenue for domestic sales of red meat ........$5 billion?
Total promotional allocation for red meat (domestic and exports) = ...$57 million

b) Total Annual Revenue for live exports approx. $700 million
Total promotional allocation for live exports = .....$600,000

"Hehe, you girls crack me up, you really do. You are so badly informed
that you could not organise a pissup in a brewery :)"

What a charming man - and such a comedian but could the Mouth even LOCATE a beer in a brewery and is he so "badly informed" that he can't evaluate an expenditure and income sheet. Even a pre-primary student could see which of the two is the export earner.

In any event, where are his links to confirm his figures? I've yet to see him substantiate anything. It's just more dribble, dribble, d.r.i.b.b.l.e ........yawn - so tedious even my leg's fallen asleep.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hi all
Dickie, I'm with you. Yabby simply resorts to insults - and gender based ones at that - when no-one falls into line with his propaganda. Having worked extensively as a Director, I can assure you that you can make an Annual Report say anything you want it to say, and this is particularly true of LiveCorp/MLA because of the public disapprobation for what they do. That is the other reason why I would not waste my very expensive time on MLA's Annual Report. They are written for shareholders and saay what shareholders want them to say.

I don't know that it takes too much intellectual power to "look after" cattle either, in areas like the Pilbara they seem to tend to mostly look after themselves, as I understand it. Unless they are particularly special cattle, perhaps?

At the end of the day, the reality is that we all know gross animal abuse when we see it. It is as simple as that. They have had decades to fix it, they keep claiming that they have (although now they refer to only "making improvements"), and get caught out every time - yes, every time - there is an investigation. Now, Yabby, and Belly (Belly, I hope I haven't insulted you and I'm sorry to see you go even if we are poles apart in our views), there is just no answer to that, is there? If you want to give it a try, please try to keep it nice. And a bit relevant.

Cheers
Nicky

Interestingly dickie both expenditures return similar results (greater than $100) per dollar spent. If you can differentiate between export and domestic expenditure within the $57 million amount we can compare with greater scrutiny.
I trust you weren't refering only to the obvious million/billion bit.

Nicky, "Having worked extensively as a Director, I can assure you that you can make an Annual Report say anything you want it to say"

You wouldn't be putting that experience to good use here would you?

My unfettered apologies to the live-export industry, they actually generate over $1000 dollars per MLA promotion dollar compared to $200 on the export/dometic spending.

Up too late - poor maths.

Whats your excuse dickie?