Has the chevalburger incident changed your mind about food or shops you buy it in ?

pink_princess

They are now saying that organic is being sold which is far from organic, local hand reared steak which is a cheap American substitue with all those air miles.

Seems no food is beyond fraud.

A._Badger

pink_princess wrote: »

They are now saying that organic is being sold which is far from organic, local hand reared steak which is a cheap American substitue with all those air miles.

Seems no food is beyond fraud.

There have always been questions about the authenticity of 'organic' food. The problem is that no policing system is good enough to detect all fraud, all of the time.

To preserve one's own sanity, I think there comes a point when one has to make a decision to follow a course of action (be it 'organic' 'local' 'cruelty free' or 'couldn't care less') and stick to it without becoming completely neurotic about what one eats.

Middy

Some people may not have the choice of changing their supermarket from Tesco. Combination of its the only supermarket for miles, don't have a car, how able they are in walking about etc

Edwardia

OK so if this hypothetical person can't walk, possibly eligible for help from social services, as my previous neighbour did accompanied and unaccompanied shopping trips for people. Plus social services and WRCVS do meals on wheels.

If this hypothetical person wants to use a supermarket ASDA, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and Ocado deliver and Morrisons is planning to and most people can get deliveries and my local Costcutter does deliveries on phone orders. Last village I lived in, several of the shops delivered and there were mobile vans too eg library, fish & chipsm fruit & veg.

There are 550 veg box delivery schemes in the UK including large ones like Abel & Cole and Riverford. Then there are the dairies that do some food eg milkandmore.

On top of that, loads of companies do mail order and some do free postage, some do free postage on orders over £20 or the person can bulk buy.

There are loads of options !

gailey_2

I have discovered tonight a village butcher.:j

I dont drive but hubby does.

On a nice day with baby in buggy its walkable for me:)

trying not to get too exited as not sure exact ranges he stocks and how much he is yet.

All i do know is he has impressive client list, good reveiws, well hung meat-blimey that sounds rude:rotfl:

Im not sure if he does organic/free range but he does guarantee it all comes from nearby very local farms:D

Hes open from 7am in morning some days.
open on sat.

I will ring him monday and enquire before taking a visit.

will have price comparision list written down of

supermarket
organic supplier online
expensive butchers in city

COOLTRIKERCHICK

this is where people are going wrong, they are comparing the price of supermarket meat with butchers and specialist meat producers..

its like comparing a lada car with a high top of the range cars, they are both are the same ( car) but there is a vast diff in the quality, and its the same with meat..

I would rather spend more on a piece of good quality meat, as if you got a good piece of meat then you will have a good overall good plate of food... ( refering to a sunday dinner)

When I hear people saying i only have xxx supermarket near me, and no small shops, then I say 'well thats your own fault' for supporting the supermarkets and not your local independants.

I am not saying I dont buy meat from the supermarkets I do, and I use it as standby.. But I also use my local ( 6 miles away) butcher where I will spend up to £100 on various joints etc to freeze.

For us the meat doesn't have to be organic, same as our pigs, as long as its free-range and lived as natural life as poss
( below is a video of our pigs need to click on pic)





oooo ye and play in the snow:D

Sambucus_Nigra

I've been veggie for 29 years this year; and have for all of those 29 years been asking people when they eat 'beefburgers' when they were chewing for a little too long whether they found a bit of hoof in their 'food'.

prowla

In my opinion, what it says on the label should be what you get.

If something only lists "beef", then it should contain products from no other animal.

Of course, a burger should contain other items, such as rusk, onions, so it would never be 100% beef.

gailey_2

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

this is where people are going wrong, they are comparing the price of supermarket meat with butchers and specialist meat producers..

its like comparing a lada car with a high top of the range cars, they are both are the same ( car) but there is a vast diff in the quality, and its the same with meat..

I would rather spend more on a piece of good quality meat, as if you got a good piece of meat then you will have a good overall good plate of food... ( refering to a sunday dinner)

When I hear people saying i only have xxx supermarket near me, and no small shops, then I say 'well thats your own fault' for supporting the supermarkets and not your local independants.

I am not saying I dont buy meat from the supermarkets I do, and I use it as standby.. But I also use my local ( 6 miles away) butcher where I will spend up to £100 on various joints etc to freeze.

For us the meat doesn't have to be organic, same as our pigs, as long as its free-range and lived as natural life as poss
( below is a video of our pigs need to click on pic)





oooo ye and play in the snow:D

I know it will probably be more expensive than supermarket or old butcher.

They supply some very fancy restaurants so expecting it to be high end , free range and possibly not organic like you as long as I know provinance, tehy been well treated, nothings added and it tastes nice quite prepared to eat less meat.

Theres a really fancy butcher in posh area of city,its 2buses for me andl ast time looked very expensive its organic and its very affluent area hence why wanted to make comparartive price with other butchers.

http://www.sheepdrove.com/

There are 2other butchers are nearby high street im unsure if they be any better than old butcher off van. One does look nicer than the other.

Also have farmshop butcher in neigbouring village.

maybe I will support them all and try a few.

want to pay fair price and compare to ocado/waitrose and organic suppliers online to try and assertain a fair price.

Will miss old butchers as they were such fab service.

but last few times the meats not been great.

I have to know as much as I can about the meat I buy.

Those piggies look so cute

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I know what you mean about trying to find a good butcher you can trust.

Where we get our meat from there are 2 butchers, used the other one once or twice, I wanted welsh lamb, and he told me he even knew the farm it came from, when I got home there was a huge new zealand stamp on it:eek::eek::eek::mad::mad::mad:

With the 'posh' butcher, if they are expensive, you might be able to choose diff cuts of meat, or buy slightly less.

The farm shop might be a good place too, but again I am a bit dubious with some of them, meaning they have jumped on the band wagon and maybe not all what they seem....

Those 2 piggies are going in the next 2 weeks, they are just the right size for farmhouse bacon..

so will need to get the next batch of piggies in asap, so we don't miss them too much:o:o