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Campaign to dump MLA board
1 Nov 2004
A group of cattle producers led by Australian Beef Association president John Carter wants the board of Meat and Livestock Australia dumped at the annual general meeting next month because MLA is pushing ahead with the controversial National Livestock Identification System. Carter said MLA was wasting an incredible amount of money levied from growers to promote NLIS in Australia. He said similar systems had already failed overseas, he said. "The UK's a good example. They've got 700 bureaucrats tracing 10 million cattle and 20pc of them are missing." MLA chairman David Crombie was extremely disappointed at the reaction of some members to the NLIS. But he said sacking the board was not the answer. "Trace back's a fact of life in the food industry," he said. Mr Crombie said not all producers were enthusiastic about NLIS but MLA's job was to make the hard decisions even though those decisions might not be popular.
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