Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Minister Shane Jones wanting to bring back live animal exports

Minister Shane Jones is still keen to bring back live animal exports sooner rather than later.

In an interview on The Country, Jones made it clear in no uncertain terms that live animal exports would be good for the economy.

The Country's Jamie Mackay explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jamie McKay, hosts of the Countries of That's Evening, Jamie,
I hear that. So Shane Jones was on the show
and he was just having.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
A crack, was he, oh, just having a crack, racking
up the Greenies? You name it. Look, we were going
to talk He was filling in for Winston Peter's on
yesterday's show, and we were going to talk about live
animal export, which will.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Jamie are you there? The Greenies have cut his line.
They have We're going to talk about the live animal export.
Greenies have cut the line. Hey while I've actually speaking
of which this is actually important. So we'll see if
we can get Jamie up. I just got to tell
you quickly. Transpower is asking households north of Walkworth who
do not have power to please reduce the power outage.
They the power usage. Rather, they say they don't yet

(00:42):
know when the power is going to be back on
for everyone, but it's going to take at least until
late tomorrow at the earliest, so you're in for the
long haul. Northland people with power are being told to
use less, for example, turn off the heaters, turn off
the lights and rooms you're not using, use your large
appliance as sparingly only change your electric vehicles as needed

(01:02):
six twenty five and Jamie mckaye's back are, they say, Jamie.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, someone turned the power out into needing apologies for that, Heather.
So anyhow, he tees off against Jill to send his
new political program about leading with kindness and empathy. And
I suggested to him that there's probably a few frogs
and lizards around the country who reckon he should sign
up for this program here But anyhow, I'm just quoting
him here. He said, Martua Shane Jones from Kaitaia always

(01:28):
speaks about himself. I'm the third person is not going
to tolerate ever any of that jewy eyed naivete. It'll
be a long day in hell. Before I joined that
pearl clutching group, and then I suggested to him that
perhaps he could learn to speak to people with hope
and optimism rather than fear or blame, to unite rather
than divide, and away he went again. He said, just

(01:48):
sind us over there emotionally colonizing another part of the world,
and the less I encounter of it the better. And
then we got to live animal export. And this is
where he really took off. Said, I think we should
go ahead sooner rather than later with exporting animals. And
if a few rams die on the way, well that's
just part of life. We can't preserve every single creature

(02:10):
in the pursuit of fiscal solvency. Get real. So that's
but to have change.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
You've been wavering on this, you haven't been sure we
you sit on the live animally exports. Has he changed
your mind? Has he firmed you up? A?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Look, honestly, it's a it's a very divisive it's a
divisive issue and I think I've said to you that,
to this to you before, Heather. I think New Zealand
farming has split down the middle on this one. Yes,
it's a half billion dollar income earner, but there are
some negatives with it as well. But I will say,
you know, like the animal wealthy standards on these live

(02:44):
exports ships is vastly different to what we had in
the past.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, hey, what's the problem with the median barriers?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Ah, well, the median barriers. Let me have a look
at that one. I thought we were talking about the
Ravo farmer comfort.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm fascinated by the medium barriers.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
All right, Well, go with the meat barriers, or you
don't even start me on the orange cones here that
we'll just go with the median barriers at the moment.
So the rural contractors say the median barriers and barriers
are making roads unsafe and causing them stress for those
driving tractors with lines of cars behind them. These are
the tractors with the mowers or the silence makers or
whatever as they're making the way down. Obviously the cars

(03:20):
can't get passed if there's a median barrier in the
middle of the road. So therese contractors driving tractors on
long stretches a road are being faced with abuse and
being clipped by other drivers who can't pass them because
of those barriers. The guy who's running the rural contractors
group a chat by the name of Andrew Olsen said, look,

(03:40):
our members are telling us it's becoming quite stressful because
they're traveling down the road and they're tractors or machinery
which they're entired to do, and then they end up
with dozens of cars with impatient drivers like me behind them.
He said it can be easily fixed by just putting
casting bays or areas where contractors could easily and safely
pull over the others past and extra camper van drivers

(04:02):
could follow that leaders Well, it's actually not a bad piece.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's not a bad idea at all, Jamie. Thank you
so much. As always, Jamie McKay hosts of the Country Right.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
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