02-11-2008, 01:16 PM
Where are they slaughtering these "thousands" at? Do we have any slaughter houses left on Oahu? They are also valuable sales items even if they are also live critters so I doubt they are allowing that great of a percentage of them to die. If they did that they wouldn't be in business very long.
Generally we ship cattle from here to Canada and then walk them across the border to the mainland United States. That has to do with the Jones act and which ships can go to which ports. They may use the same containers to ship pigs back here since otherwise they would be sending the containers back empty although that would be shipping pigs out from Canada and not the mainland U.S. The cattle are shipped in special shipping containers so they would have to ship those back and the price would be about the same whether they are full or empty, I would think since ocean freight is calculated by volume and not weight.
Generally we ship cattle from here to Canada and then walk them across the border to the mainland United States. That has to do with the Jones act and which ships can go to which ports. They may use the same containers to ship pigs back here since otherwise they would be sending the containers back empty although that would be shipping pigs out from Canada and not the mainland U.S. The cattle are shipped in special shipping containers so they would have to ship those back and the price would be about the same whether they are full or empty, I would think since ocean freight is calculated by volume and not weight.
Kurt Wilson