I’ve been very fortunate to whilst having been in the falklands to get a chance to see a large sheep station. Whilst there the people got talking as farmers do and we started discussing markets etc. anyway from what I was told and I may have got this wrong but they get £40 for a fat lamb which is mostly shipped to the uk and some to Europe and sold as British lamb in British supermarkets they said. I know it’s a British overseas territory but how can this be right?
Falkland Islands
- Thread starter mac
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Argies pay more will they???
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- Welshpool Powys
Don’t think the Argentinians would buy anything British.
I remember a high profile case a number of years ago where Bernard Matthews were hatching turkey poults in the UK, transporting them to an eastern european country to be reared, and then after processing selling them in the UK as British turkeys.
The court ruled that as they had been initially hatched in the UK that they were indeed British turkeys and Bernard Matthews were doing nothing wrong.
So I guess by that same 'logic', it indeed is "British" lamb.
The court ruled that as they had been initially hatched in the UK that they were indeed British turkeys and Bernard Matthews were doing nothing wrong.
So I guess by that same 'logic', it indeed is "British" lamb.
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- South Wales UK
And all the bully beef Britain bought off them too.
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- Perthshire, Scotland
@ritchiekirkland
Don’t know if things have changed since you were over there?
Don’t know if things have changed since you were over there?
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- Co. Down, UK
The fishing rights that go with vast area that the Falklands Islands control, more than pays for it self. Never mind future oil extraction. The argies want the Falklands for the wealth that goes along with them, not because it's a rock close to them.
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glasshouse
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- lothians
We needed it at the time...
Anyone else remember those tins of Frey Bentos meat pies you had to stab in the lid then boil?
Happy days of student cooking
solo
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- worcestershire
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- NSW, Newstralya
Yes, we had them here as well
could never understand or get my head around being in Australia & having tinned South American beef in our supermarkets
but, I guess we are closer to them than you are . . .
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Frodo
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Now made in Fochabers, by Baxter’s.They’re still available if you are hankering for one.The better half has them in her charity boxes.
Don't you cook them on manhole covers out there?
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Dunno, manhole covers are pretty few & far between, where I live . . .
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Ah... Must be a Sydney thing...
caveman
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Thank goodness we don't have to survive solely on whatever food is produced within the UK.
It's not the Falklanders fault that UK fat lamb producers would struggle to survive on £40 per lamb.
It's not the Falklanders fault that UK fat lamb producers would struggle to survive on £40 per lamb.
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- Haute Vienne, France
I don't think this is just a british thing. Its just a shame for them they never got EU subsidies unlike the french overseas territories.
Always amuses me to see a box to tick if you are in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana or Réunion. Better climate than the Falklands too.
Always amuses me to see a box to tick if you are in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana or Réunion. Better climate than the Falklands too.