Defining moments of meat processing

By Shan Goodwin
Updated June 23 2016 - 2:41pm, first published 6:30am
Processing of carcasses in the 1980s.
Processing of carcasses in the 1980s.

FROM the time US importers arrived in Australia looking for lean, boneless beef packed in cartons in the 1950s to the first shipment of chilled vacuum-packed primals to Japan, through the beef market crash of the 1970s and 30 years of ensuing rationalisation, the story of Australia’s red meat processing and export trade is filled with defining moments.

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