We are committed

[Courier]

We are committed to high animal welfare standards and our producers and farmers must be fully compliant with the Red Tractor or equivalent assurance scheme, as well as meet additional Tesco welfare standards.

Tesco has a long and proud history of working closely with farmers and growers- some are small, family-run farms while others are of a larger scale. We work hard to source what we believe to be the best in-season produce for our customers, from the best farms with the best growers and farmers from all over the world. Every product is clearly labelled with its country of origin.

So how does from all over the world square with eqivalent to Red Tractor when one of the main Red Tractor facets is supposed to be UK grown.

 

[tje]

We are committed to high animal welfare standards and our producers and farmers must be fully compliant with the Red Tractor or equivalent assurance scheme, as well as meet additional Tesco welfare standards.

Tesco has a long and proud history of working closely with farmers and growers- some are small, family-run farms while others are of a larger scale. We work hard to source what we believe to be the best in-season produce for our customers, from the best farms with the best growers and farmers from all over the world. Every product is clearly labelled with its country of origin.

So how does from all over the world square with eqivalent to Red Tractor when one of the main Red Tractor facets is supposed to be UK grown.

Red tractor doesn't actually mean produced in the UK just produced to a set of standards ...

The rest is just corporate spin and double speak ....

 

[endeavour]

It does not, when are farmers going to realise that they can not compete with the power of major supermarket PR machines to advance the supermarkets pursuit of profit. Some may describe this as "Handling the truth carefully" I prefer deliberately misleading the customer!!!!

 

[Yale]

It does not, when are farmers going to realise that they can not compete with the power of major supermarket PR machines to advance the supermarkets pursuit of profit. Some may describe this as "Handling the truth carefully" I prefer deliberately misleading the customer!!!!

Yes,it's about pulling the wool over consumers eyes to ensure they fill their baskets with the products which are most profitable for the shop.

 

[TripleSix]

Yes,it's about pulling the wool over consumers eyes to ensure they fill their baskets with the products which are most profitable for the shop.

Even the wool they're pulling over their eyes is 50% polyester!

 

[Hampton]

Even the wool they're pulling over their eyes is 50% polyester!

Yes, but it's under 16month old polyester, and it's definitely not horsehair!

 

[Clive]

Red tractor doesn't actually mean produced in the UK just produced to a set of standards ...

The rest is just corporate spin and double speak ....

So wrong isn't it - we should be able to use a big fat Union flag on UK produced goods and sod what Europe thinks - what has become of a country when it needs the permission of others to use its flag !!!

A consumer would know exactky what the Union Jack means without need for education and expensive ad campaigns to tell them

Red tractors means nothing more than a few dubious records have been kept and a fee has been paid

 

[Suffolk Serf]

So wrong isn't it - we should be able to use a big fat Union flag on UK produced goods and sod what Europe thinks - what has become of a country when it needs the permission of others to use its flag !!!

A consumer would know exactky what the Union Jack means without need for education and expensive ad campaigns to tell them

Red tractors means nothing more than a few dubious records have been kept and a fee has been paid

We have been told for years that "it's against EU rules to use the union flag". That is until last year when Liz Truss told a small meeting of pig farmers that it wasn't so.
It doesn't appear to have sunk in. Liz Truss said the same thing more recently.
Nobody seems to quite believe it, so ingrained have we become that that is the "rule". The whole system has revolved around it.
It was merely a civil a servants interpretation of an EU rule!

 

[Bill the Bass]

We are committed to high animal welfare standards and our producers and farmers must be fully compliant with the Red Tractor or equivalent assurance scheme, as well as meet additional Tesco welfare standards.

Tesco has a long and proud history of working closely with farmers and growers- some are small, family-run farms while others are of a larger scale. We work hard to source what we believe to be the best in-season produce for our customers, from the best farms with the best growers and farmers from all over the world. Every product is clearly labelled with its country of origin.

So how does from all over the world square with eqivalent to Red Tractor when one of the main Red Tractor facets is supposed to be UK grown.

I may be wrong but I can't seem to remember an equine section of any farm assurance scheme

 

[Hampton]

We have been told for years that "it's against EU rules to use the union flag". That is until last year when Liz Truss told a small meeting of pig farmers that it wasn't so.
It doesn't appear to have sunk in. Liz Truss said the same thing more recently.
Nobody seems to quite believe it, so ingrained have we become that that is the "rule". The whole system has revolved around it.
It was merely a civil a servants interpretation of an EU rule!

it also suits Peter Kendall to peddle that line

 

[Courier]

It was merely a (UK) civil servants interpretation of an EU rule!

Make no mistake, it is UK Civil Servants who are the real Flies in the Ointment...

 

[gone up the hill]

it also suits Peter Kendall to peddle that line

Aye he is all but anti British farmers!

The RT logo is a complete waste of time and the AHDB made a big song and dance late last year about wanting to change and be more focused on what the levy payers want, well we told them load and clear at the meetings they had in the winter and since then what have they done?? Sweet FA.. ( and I don't mean farm assurance lol )

We need to cut costs, time for the AHDB levy to be scrapped!

And don't forget that the AHDB get £60 million in levy payers money and over £22 million of this is spent on staff costs alone!...

 

[colhonk]

When I was growing up, telling of untruths were called LIES.

 

[7610 super q]

Maybe the wrong place for this.....but I've often wondered how much nonsense (Red Tractor etc.) our foreign competitors have to put up with ?
Any members on here from USA, Australia, France, Argentina care to comment ?

 

[Yale]

When I was growing up, telling of untruths were called LIES.

But there's lies,damn lies and supermarket promotions.

 

[Roger Perry]

If you do not get away from the sinking ship of Europe later this month.............you have only yourselves to blame.
The vested interest's will implore you to stay with tales of disaster, do not listen to them.
Just like here in the U.S. the "Establishment" want things to stay just as they are, the "people" meanwhile are sick of it and want out.

 

[rob1]

If you do not get away from the sinking ship of Europe later this month.............you have only yourselves to blame.
The vested interest's will implore you to stay with tales of disaster, do not listen to them.
Just like here in the U.S. the "Establishment" want things to stay just as they are, the "people" meanwhile are sick of it and want out.

We had the Arab spring a few years ago perhaps we will now have a democracy spring

 

[JP1]

Maybe the wrong place for this.....but I've often wondered how much nonsense (Red Tractor etc.) our foreign competitors have to put up with ?
Any members on here from USA, Australia, France, Argentina care to comment ?

It's multi-layered and getting worse

I knew this might be coming although I was assured it would affect TB1 / 2 , shoulder areas. It doesn't it affects everyone in England

Letter unsigned from DEFRA telling me (the McDonald Review and the "Farming Regulation Task Force") will be "Reducing your movement reporting burden"

May be it does for some but not for me

They are removing Single Occupation Authorities forthwith but no documentation to say how.

Currently I have a SOA signed off by my vet for biosecurity. I tag and birth notify to one holding number, record interSOA movements but only notify on / off holding movements with CTS beyond the SOA i.e. when cattle are bought or sold.

Now it looks like (but five Government agencies - RPA, APHA, BCMS, local AHVLA and DEFRA Helpline (the number given on the letter - there's a euphemism) nobody cannot tell me a thing as nothing has been rolled out even though the letter says what they are taking away

I'm summising it will mean a job employment scheme re-registering new separate holding numbers, two sets of ear tags, birth notifying and movement recording on two holdings not one and when my cows come home off the HLS summer grazing (yes you guessed it another Gov Dept Natural England will not give a blanket derogation for one dry field for galloway winter feeding), they will have to have a stamp in the passport there and back. I don't believe anyone can adequately show common ownership so I reckon my old cows won't meet FA requirements

And this my friends has got to be a cooked up own goal by DEFRA and nothing to do with EU

They've done away with local AHVLA and I reckon any old bloke with his unwashed trailer has carte blanche to move his animal bug factory within 10 miles of me without any form of control

 

[will l]

Maybe the wrong place for this.....but I've often wondered how much nonsense (Red Tractor etc.) our foreign competitors have to put up with ?
Any members on here from USA, Australia, France, Argentina care to comment ?

Think your problem maybe with the supermarkets or national government as here food is labelled and they use the flag,