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Why is New Zealand banning live animal exports?

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Hundreds of New Zealand animals died when two ships transporting them sank. All exports of stay animals had been banned, and now the ban is changing into a logo of the urban-rural divide. In a single sinking in 2020, 41 crew members and 6,000 cattle on board the ship Gulf Livestock 1 had been killed. Animal safety activists are celebrating the ban, however farmers and rural communities are involved about its financial impression. The opposition Nationwide Occasion argues it might scale back GDP by as much as $472 million, and it’s changing into a difficulty forward of this yr’s elections.

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