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Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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I mean.. great and all that we are growing closer to Australia, free movement and trade are wonderful. But we really dont't need to ship stuff all around the globe for the sake of trading. We have beef in Europe and Australia can make our cheese if we send them the recipe.
Australia both imports and exports pork. Why? Because culturally we really like bacon, but apparently we don't like other parts of the pig. So we import bacon cuts from Canada and Europa, but we export other port products, mostly the bits used to make sausage like the tripe, guts, and trotters, to Asia, where they are made into sausage. Some of that sausage is then shipped back to us.
I don't eat pork, bacon or otherwise, but that is baffling to me. All that Labor, logistics, truck and ship diesel, electricity to chill the product, because bacon yum but trotters yuck?