Just read Asda and Sainsbury’s importing polish beef is this true anyone know facts

[icanshootwell]

Anywhere but, we have the power , it’s up to us if we want to relinquish it to massive company’s that will inevitably pressure us down to the last pip , don’t sell them anything take the power back they can’t process fresh air.

Funnily enough, i went up to Ellesmere plant last year to look at there grading system, it was off the back of some harsh grading, prime heifers being graded to fat, you get the picture. It,s almost impossible to get them r3l everytime, even the lorry driver did,t think this bunch were over fat but i was heavily penalized for it. These are home-bred single suckled limx, you don,t want 3.15p/kg do you from a 18 to 22 month. What really winds me up is those with a bit of extra fat on would taste the best, but they want no fat for super markets, dont matter what it tastes like as long as it looks right that,s all that counts.

 

[kiwi pom]

Watch this, it will explain how Larry got so big. Why he isn’t in jail I don’t know.

World in Action, takes me back.
So subsidies having been f**king the job for years.
Seems a lot of people from the bottom to the very top either turned a blind eye or took a back hander.

I wonder what kind of currency the middle east countries paid for their beef in?

Its a shame the whole of the UK and Irish farming industry have allowed him to stay in business. The man obviously has friends in VERY high places.

 

[PercyBlakeney]

The hide market is having some influence on the beef market at the moment I would have thought. Prices have collapsed (from an already shît couple of years due to slowdown in global car sales) overnight and the market for hides has disappeared. China car sales were down 82% in feb, and all the tanneries in Italy are shut, a lot are located in Lombardy, epicentre of the Italy outbreak. So it’s a double whammy for abbattoirs, especially the smaller operators as prices for the ones you can shift are virtually zero, and then there is the cost of storage and implications for the build up of hides at the abattoirs could be causing a significant problem I would’ve thought?

 

[sixrow]

Sorry to come in late and haven’t read all the posts but why the fck are farmers still putting to abp I would go somewhere else for less just to prove a point.local butcher was 40 pounds more for a similar order this week taking the absolute pee.

 

[Smith31]

The hide market is having some influence on the beef market at the moment I would have thought. Prices have collapsed (from an already shît couple of years due to slowdown in global car sales) overnight and the market for hides has disappeared. China car sales were down 82% in feb, and all the tanneries in Italy are shut, a lot are located in Lombardy, epicentre of the Italy outbreak. So it’s a double whammy for abbattoirs, especially the smaller operators as prices for the ones you can shift are virtually zero, and then there is the cost of storage and implications for the build up of hides at the abattoirs could be causing a significant problem I would’ve thought?

Fleeces and hides are worthless. The rendering cartel are charging butchers and abattoirs thousands to remove single artic loads of offal, which they then process and sell.

All this comes off farmgate prices!!

Maybe if the levy board and NFU worked in their paying customers interests and consulted politicians and energy companies, these natural products could be burnt to create electricity, instead of transporting wood from the other side of the world. At the very least it would create competition allowing smaller abattoirs to survive.

 

[Hilly]

Funnily enough, i went up to Ellesmere plant last year to look at there grading system, it was off the back of some harsh grading, prime heifers being graded to fat, you get the picture. It,s almost impossible to get them r3l everytime, even the lorry driver did,t think this bunch were over fat but i was heavily penalized for it. These are home-bred single suckled limx, you don,t want 3.15p/kg do you from a 18 to 22 month. What really winds me up is those with a bit of extra fat on would taste the best, but they want no fat for super markets, dont matter what it tastes like as long as it looks right that,s all that counts.

Try selling somewhere else ? See how you get on for a comparison ?

 

[Wolds Beef]

Right, My IT savvy daughter has put me right! Look closely at the Blue rings!! Some one more savvy than me can move it on.
WB

 

[Wolds Beef]

@JP1 and co can move it to other places. @Clive
WB

 

[JP1]

@JP1 and co can move it to other places. @Clive
WB

Move it to where D?

 

[Wolds Beef]

Well, some people said we should use social media to shame them. But I not good at that sort of thing!
WB

 

[Far Gloss]

Sorry to come in late and haven’t read all the posts but why the fck are farmers still putting to abp I would go somewhere else for less just to prove a point.local butcher was 40 pounds more for a similar order this week taking the absolute pee.

Because Abp is a 15 minute drive away and the nearest dunbia is a 2 hour drive.

 

[sixrow]

We are 5 hours from anywhere if you let them take the pee they will keep on doing it.

 

[kiwi pom]

Right, My IT savvy daughter has put me right! Look closely at the Blue rings!! Some one more savvy than me can move it on.
WB

Seems to be deliberately misleading to me. It may be considered within the rules but I think an average shopper could reasonable expect that to be from an animal reared in Britain.
@Wolds Beef have you, your friend or your daughter considered complaining to Tesco and asking them to explain?
Have you contacted your NFU rep?

 

[Northern territory]

One thing for certain, only things born, reared and slaughtered in this country should be allowed to carry that flag. How difficult is it really to enforce this. It’s just a game to them.

 

[kiwi pom]

Move it to where D?

Seems to me like it should be something that gets spread over social media, calling out Tesco for being misleading?
I think I've read on here that the TFF team use twitter and Facebook etc to get information out there. Particularly when its slagging off the NFU and RT.
This must be a worthy cause?
There must be others on here that could do similar?

 

[kiwi pom]

Because Abp is a 15 minute drive away and the nearest dunbia is a 2 hour drive.

Crikey if that's the only reason, its no surprise that Larry's built his empire (twice?) Do Abp pay more too?

 

[Dave6170]

Whats to say it beef mince in those packets? Have consumers forgotten already about the horse meat

 

[icanshootwell]

Whats to say it beef mince in those packets? Have consumers forgotten already about the horse meat

My mrs read me a quote that popped up on her phone last night. Apparently the polish beef mince is not shifting off the shelves and certain supermarkets are doing price reductions. Seems like jo public has,nt been tempted by this bargain.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

My mrs read me a quote that popped up on her phone last night. Apparently the polish beef mince is not shifting off the shelves and certain supermarkets are doing price reductions. Seems like jo public has,nt been tempted by this bargain.

Let’s hope they don’t repackage it with a Union Jack on the packaging

 

[Sid]

Funnily enough, i went up to Ellesmere plant last year to look at there grading system, it was off the back of some harsh grading, prime heifers being graded to fat, you get the picture. It,s almost impossible to get them r3l everytime, even the lorry driver did,t think this bunch were over fat but i was heavily penalized for it. These are home-bred single suckled limx, you don,t want 3.15p/kg do you from a 18 to 22 month. What really winds me up is those with a bit of extra fat on would taste the best, but they want no fat for super markets, dont matter what it tastes like as long as it looks right that,s all that counts.

Correct it doesn't matter to the supermarkets. what the meat tastes like is immaterial as well , because that can be altered by one of the sauces they sell next to the meat.

Facebook picture my mrs showed me last night of shelf of polish beef been reduced, maybe the consumer is a bit more educated than we think?