Irish slaughter houses shutting

[Northeastfarmer]

And farmers will trip over themselves to sell to him.


“I bought the Irish beef industry for 1p per kilo”

I won’t

 

[mac]

Happened to be in our local Tesco tonight and very little steak or beef on the shelf. Out of stock until Wednesday must be having a knock on effect for supermarkets supply now surely. There was a small selection of cheaper cuts all Irish where’s the scotch beef that’s usually there gone?

Mac

 

[6480]

Happened to be in our local Tesco tonight and very little steak or beef on the shelf. Out of stock until Wednesday must be having a knock on effect for supermarkets supply now surely. There was a small selection of cheaper cuts all Irish where’s the scotch beef that’s usually there gone?

Mac

Factories digging in hard over here. On Sunday evening a beef processor probably the 4th largest here in Ireland made an offer of 3.75 euro a kg plus bonus of up to 20c kg .the farmers protesting said they wanted the
price fixed for 3 months and would think about it and get back to the beef processor ..however 18hr later the offer dropped to 3.5kgw with no fixed period on that offer. So we kinda back to square one again

 

[milkloss]

Factories digging in hard over here. On Sunday evening a beef processor probably the 4th largest here in Ireland made an offer of 3.75 euro a kg plus bonus of up to 20c kg .the farmers protesting said they wanted the
price fixed for 3 months and would think about it and get back to the beef processor ..however 18hr later the offer dropped to 3.5kgw with no fixed period on that offer. So we kinda back to square one again

Something has to happen to all this beef that’s still walking about, going to be one hell of a glut when it gets killed?

 

[Happy]

Happened to be in our local Tesco tonight and very little steak or beef on the shelf. Out of stock until Wednesday must be having a knock on effect for supermarkets supply now surely. There was a small selection of cheaper cuts all Irish where’s the scotch beef that’s usually there gone?

Mac

Shouldn’t have gone anywhere.
Unless of course it was never Scotch in the first place...............

 

[Still Farming]

Thought the eire government was handing out billions in compo ?

 

[Hilly]

Maybe they would be better to leave the factories alone and go to the the docks / airport throw imported stuff into the sea ? I don’t know ? Not easy.

 

[Hilly]

I won’t

Nor me and if this sh!t starts here wo betide then that do , I ain’t going down with no fight.

 

[Agrivator]

How will beef of Polish origin, if any, be transported into Southern Ireland?

And I suppose that any which is imported can't under any circumstances be passed off as Irish Beef, or heaven forbid if it comes onward into the UK, as Ulster, English, Welsh or Scotch Beef.

 

[Chae1]

Happened to be in our local Tesco tonight and very little steak or beef on the shelf. Out of stock until Wednesday must be having a knock on effect for supermarkets supply now surely. There was a small selection of cheaper cuts all Irish where’s the scotch beef that’s usually there gone?

Mac

The kill, at McIntosh Donald/kepak at portlethen has increased due to Irish beef not coming in. They supply Tesco.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The kill, at McIntosh Donald/kepak at portlethen has increased due to Irish beef not coming in. They supply Tesco.

Has the price though...

 

[Chae1]

Has the price though...

No, said they'd be turning cattle away if it wasn't for irish protests.

 

[Hilly]

The kill, at McIntosh Donald/kepak at portlethen has increased due to Irish beef not coming in. They supply Tesco.

Who cares about the kill has the price gone up ?

No, said they'd be turning cattle away if it wasn't for irish protests.

theysupply Tesco says it all.

 

[Chae1]

Really, there doing us a favour taking them.

 

[Hilly]

Really, there doing us a favour taking them.

You believe that sh!t ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ffs wake up.

 

[Hilly]

You believe that sh!t ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ffs wake up.

Do you still believe in the tooth fairy ? Do you ?

 

[MF 168]

Hunger is the only cure to the current oversupply in Europe. Between veg-ans, environmentalists, anti farming rhetoric and any other things ye care to mention we're well up that stream with no paddle. Throw in a bit of a shortage on the shelves of the supermarkets and see how long the above mentioned sh1!s stick to their morals. Asking farmers to cut production to drive prices up would be akin to asking them to lop off an arm so we're faced with the current mess and no sign of a real solution.
Farmers feed the entire world and could hold it to ransom in the morning if they all unified and ceased selling all products.
Unfortunately there's no loyalty amongst farmers and the processors know this.

 

[johnspeehs]

How will beef of Polish origin, if any, be transported into Southern Ireland?

And I suppose that any which is imported can't under any circumstances be passed off as Irish Beef, or heaven forbid if it comes onward into the UK, as Ulster, English, Welsh or Scotch Beef.

As far as i know its being processed here in the North and because the factories here are Bord Bia licensed then it can be sold as Irish and go down the road,,,, Happy to be corrected if i've taken this up wrong.

 

[rancher]

As far as i know its being processed here in the North and because the factories here are Bord Bia licensed then it can be sold as Irish and go down the road,,,, Happy to be corrected if i've taken this up wrong.

It's not supposed to be but how can you guarantee it doesn't happen, It's suppose to be policed but !!!!!!!
Labels are saying ''slaughtered in Ireland, processed in UK''

 

[cowboysupper]

As far as i know its being processed here in the North and because the factories here are Bord Bia licensed then it can be sold as Irish and go down the road,,,, Happy to be corrected if i've taken this up wrong.

It can be processed in the north and sold as ‘Irish’ with the Bord Bia sticker if the northern plant is accredited, but to get the born, reared and slaughtered country of origin ‘Republic of Ireland’ sticker it has to be slaughtered in the south. They use the technicalities of labelling to their advantage.

I remember seeing frozen legs of lamb a few years back supplied to a retailer from a secondary processor in Co. Armagh that said ‘produced in the UK’ only for the label to also say ‘from New Zealand or Australia.’ Completely misleading, but not entirely illegal because their are variances in strictness between fresh, processed and frozen labelling laws.