Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

Language: English

Pages: 224

ISBN: 0520260937

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called “flaps,” from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. They show that flaps—which are taken from the animals’ bellies and are often 50 percent fat—are not mere market transactions but evidence of the social nature of nutrition policies, illustrating and reinforcing Pacific Islanders’ presumed second-class status relative to the white populations of Australia and New Zealand.

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New Zealand economy more generally, was experiencing increasing trouble. The picture Finlayson presented (confirmed by virtually everyone we talked with) was of extreme and ultimately unfeasible regulation. The government, working together with the Meat Board (a powerful statutory body representing farmers’ interests), had implemented a thicket of Making Flaps 31 measures to foster and protect New Zealand’s meat exports, the country’s most important source of export revenue.2 By shielding.

Meat and Related Trades of Aotearoa union.17 Early in our interview, we asked him about a statement he had made, that “whipping the guts out of 3,200 sheep or 400 cattle a day is filthy, soul-destroying, boring and dangerous.” 18 This was true, he said, adding that with the decline of union power in New Zealand, circumstances have even worsened. Agreed-upon terms and conditions have been eroded; the number of hours worked has increased; overtime rates (time and a half and double time) have been.

Workers are single men, but many came with families. Housing has proven to be a real problem, especially for those with large families, but the company made a special effort to make sure that the families have settled in, paying special attention to the wives, some of whom do not speak English. We want them to “put down roots,” said Hill. The company has begun literacy and numeracy courses, not only to ensure the workers’ safety in the plant (to make sure, for example, that they can read and.

Things) that large bodies were, in “traditional” Fijian culture, aesthetically appealing. Such bodies indicated that a person had a capacity for hard work and also that a person was fed and cared for by a large social network: “The display of core cultural values through the medium of personal bodies is a primary expression of the ethos of care within the social body. The body is the showplace of its caretaking community. Social relationships in Fiji are fundamentally mediated through the.

People throughout the world follow prescriptive marriage rules. In the case of the Chambri, a man is supposed marry his mother’s brother’s daughter or someone he calls mother’s brother’s daughter. In so doing, he will also marry someone from the moiety group opposite to his own. 13. For an accessible and compelling portrayal of how the promises of development have played out among one group of Highlanders living in the Mount Hagen area during the mid-1980s, see the film Joe Leahy’s Neighbours.

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