consumptive tourism
The lucrative (unrecorded) production and consumption figures
of game meat in South Africa, support the fact that the need for
verification of the safety of the meat through the global standardised
procedure of meat inspection, can never be sidestepped. The
urgent intervention from the game industry to ensure such basic
safety compliance is strongly recommended.
The recent listeria outbreak in South Africa with a dearly noted loss
of human lives and critical financial blows to not only the respective
meat industries but the country as a whole, has confirmed the
importance of ensuring safety in all production, marketing and
commercialisation phases of game meat.Dr Gert Dry, a well-known and highly
respected figure in the wildlife realm, modelled
the following economic-based questions in
2013 at the first Biodiversity Economy Indaba
in Polokwane (11-12 November 2013) and with
noted equal relevance in 2019:
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R100 billion industry 10 years from now,
compared to the current R10 billion
industry?
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country’s great, unique, natural strengths...
where the game ranching industry is
nurtured and encouraged to best deliver
as the engine room for the broader
value chain?
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#1 hunting destination in the world?
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#1 ecotourism destination in the world?
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game meat exporter to a hungry world?
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hundreds, if not thousands, of new
entrepreneurial equity or black-owned
businesses focused on activities ranging
from sustainable utilisation to game meat
production and processing to game
breeding?
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of an even bigger multiplier effect that has
huge impact in even the poorest, most
remote regions of South Africa?
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that works for all South Africans? >>