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We discovered this about a year ago when looking to buy a heap of bacon for a BBQ. We could not find any bacon in several supermarkets that was more than 12% Australian. That means none of the meat was from Aus.
A couple of days later a guy walked in to where I was working, wearing an Australian Pork Industry shirt, so I got chatting with him about it.
He said that most bacon in Australia comes from the USA and Canada, with some from China, and that it comes down to our animal husbandry laws being much stricter than in those other markets.
He did offer some good tips on local places to buy locally produced bacon, which we've been buying ever since. It's a bit more expensive, but it's a much better product.
Cheers,
Jason.
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