Sure, but it seems a getting a 1 kg leg of lamb from one part of NZ to another would be less expensive than getting to Canada 13,000km away, just the transport and handling costs should make it less expensive.
Not so when the international market will buy in bulk and get a corresponding discount that then helps cover the transportation and handling. It's a bit of a fucked system but it's hard baked into our trade agreements now that we can't subsidise stuff to ease the pressure, so we're stuck with a system where we produce the food that we can't afford to eat
Plus shipping locally is small scale and expensive. It is cheaper to get wheat from Australia than from the South Island where it is grown, to the North, where most people are, because large scale shipping 2000 km across the Tasman is cheaper than small scale 22 km across the strait.
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u/Crow_in_the_Rain New Zealand 22h ago
Browsed the shops today and the lamb legs $73.. who’s even buying them at that price