Halal and climate change: New Zealand’s meat industry body consulting with national Commission
New Zealand exported a historic high of NZ$9.2 billion (US$6.7 billion) worth of red meat products for the twelve months through September 2020, 43% (NZ$3.5 billion) of which was halal-certified, says the local Meat Industry Association (MIA).
“Each halal worker generates NZ$17 million per annum,” MIA CEO Sirma Karapeeva told Salaam Gateway.
The Pacific country was the world’s ninth largest exporter by value ($5.3 billion) of meat and edible meat offal in 2019 and the sixth biggest meat supplier to the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2020, according to the U.N.’s Trade Map.
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