Tips and advice for buying meat

blackandwhitebunny

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

I am even worried about Mcdonalds, anyone know anything about them?
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I have actually been in the McD's burger factory and all the meat comes in as identifiable pieces. They do all their mincing on the premises and their traceability systems are very strict. I don't buy their food but that's because of the way they treat their workforce rather than their food standards.
If you're going to buy more fish please consider the marine environment and check what is sustainable on the marine steward council website.:)

Edwardia

Re: fish I find it all very confusing.. a fishing fleet (fishery) has to be MSC certified for each type of fish and it takes several years to get compliant. My mother lives within driving distance of a couple of fisheries but neither is certified for everything they fish yet. We figure that as they are going through the process, it's OK to buy anything they fish.

Supermarkets often have sustainable fish policies but they can be hard to find. Sometimes the supermarkets have videos about them on their channel on YouTube. Other times you have to start searching a separate corporate website or corporate responsibility section of the website, it's often not clear.

Here's a link to the downloadable MSC Good Fish Guide.
http://www.fishonline.org/pocket-goodfishguide

Buying farmed doesn't necessarily save wild fish as off South America millions of small fish are vacuumed up be ground up and made into fish meal for farmed fish. Farmed salmon often get colouring in their feed to make them look the right colour ! GM ingredients can go into the fish feed too.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has another campaign going to stop half the fish caught in the North Sea being chucked back in because of stupid EU fish quotas. Over 800,000 people have signed the petition to the EU. If you're interested have a look on www.fishfight.net

Also when out shopping for frozen fish, some companies have the MSC logo on their products.

Over the Christmas break, the FDA in the USA agreed that GM salmon can be farmed which are twice as big as present wild salmon and have genes of more than one species of fish. When these escape into the wild it could have disastrous consequences, much like bigger grey squirrels muscling in on territory of native red squirrels. One of the main reasons for allowing it seems to be that the American company which created the frankenfish was facing bankruptcy if the FDA didn't agree.

McDonald's.. the Happy Meals 250ml semi-skimmed milk 79p is Soil Association certified British pasteurised homogenised organic semi-skimmed fresh milk

gailey_2

looked at maccy d websites as know burger king affected by horses



At McDonald's, our number one priority is to serve you great-tasting food made with quality ingredients every time you visit us, and our hamburgers, Quarter Pounders and Big Macs are no exception.

100% whole cuts of British and Irish beef

Only whole cuts of 100% beef go into our famous burgers, and it’s all supplied to us by over 16,000 British and Irish beef farmers.

These farms meet strict, nationally recognised farm assurance scheme standards covering animal health and welfare.

Skilled butchers

Skilled butchers prepare our beef, taking care to trim it to our high standards.

Then, it is minced and shaped to create a hamburger patty. There’s nothing added to the beef. Once the beef burgers are made, they’re frozen straightaway, carefully packed and then delivered to our restaurants.


Just a pinch of salt & pepper

In the restaurant kitchen, the cooking process for our 100% beef burgers is very simple.

We don’t add fat or oil to cook our burgers. Instead, hot grills are used which cook them from both sides at once (a bit like the grilling machines that you might have in your kitchen at home).

They are seasoned with just a pinch of salt and pepper after cooking.

And it really is as straightforward as that.


Just a pinch of salt & pepper

In the restaurant kitchen, the cooking process for our 100% beef burgers is very simple.

We don’t add fat or oil to cook our burgers. Instead, hot grills are used which cook them from both sides at once (a bit like the grilling machines that you might have in your kitchen at home).

They are seasoned with just a pinch of salt and pepper after cooking.

And it really is as straightforward as that.

At McDonald’s we are committed to sustainable sourcing and using quality raw ingredients that are sourced in an environmentally friendly, ethical and economical way. 100% of our beef comes from Assured British and Irish farms. While we would not use the term “free range” to describe our beef, it would be reasonable to say that most of the cattle in Britain and Ireland will have had access to grazing pasture and freedom to roam in designated fields during the summer months. However, during the winter months cattle are generally housed indoors in well-ventilated sheds due to the cold temperatures and the wet ground conditions which limit dry areas for cattle to lie down. While

While indoors, cattle tend to be fed silage (preserved grass) and/or a cereal based diet. The fact that these beef farms are certified to nationally recognised assurance schemes, such as Red Tractor, is important to us because it means that they have been independently inspected and we can be confident about the quality of the product and other important issues such as food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection.

mal welfare and environmental protection.
With regard to other products on our menu, all of the eggs used in our menu are free-range; we have been using 100% free-range eggs within our breakfast menu for over 10 years. We also use organic, semi-skimmed milk in all of our teas, coffees, milk bottles and porridge and fresh dairy milk in our shakes, sundaes and McFlurries. The pork that we use comes from British pig farms who are accredited by a nationally recognised farm assurance scheme and all the chicken breast meat we use on our entire menu is sourced from approved suppliers who must have a fully transparent and integrated supply chain to ensure that all aspects of our chicken farming standards, including feed and animal welfare are strictly adhered to at all times. We are committed to continually improving animal welfare within our supply chain, working with leading independent animal welfare experts and make decisions based upon science to promote continuous improvement as part of our broader sustainable sourcing programmes. We also work closely with our suppliers and their producers to raise welfare standards on farm and will not work with any supplier who does not adhere to our high standards and those required by UK and EU legislation regarding animal welfare.

Guess least they trying always used to get dubious when they advertised nuggets as now made real chicken.

we as family eat maccys ds maybe 3times a year on the road its occasional treat dont go there regular.

shame they couldent use this crisis to do free range /organic burgers and really play on their ethical credentials

The fish is very confusing

Always felt it was america pushing gm.

The american fda is shocking.

hope frankenfish dont escape.

I buy farmed salmon. have brought wild in past.