New Zealand lamb - where can I find it ?

SoWhatIsNext

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

Waitrose New Zealand lamb joint now languishing in my dustbin. I'm appalled.

Why? It's a waste of food.

If the slaughter method bothers you, just make a note not to buy it next time.

Just like you may feel they disrespected the animal with the slaughter method, you too are disrespecting it by just throwing it in the bin.

downshifted

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

Waitrose New Zealand lamb joint now languishing in my dustbin. I'm appalled.

Waste not want now - fish it out and send it here ;-)

pookiewn

This is an interesting article from waitrose about their lamb. Including the laws of nz slaughtering. Perhaps you can fish that lamb out the bin after all.

funnyguy

Mary had a little lamb,and I ate it.

bettyboo333

You should always stick to welsh lamb best there is!!!!:j

AnnieO1234

Because knowing that I couldn't eat it, and couldn't consciously serve it to anyone else. Each to their own and all that.

ampersand

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

It might be worth bearing in mind that most New Zealand lamb is halal, and they don't feel the need to inform us of this fact on the pack.

British lamb is lovely and easily bought from farm shops.

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What utter garbage! says this NZer, with long ties to farming families and knowledge which is still up to date.

Little has changed in rearing over decades, except the markets when Britain turned her back on former Colonies not long after I came to this Northerm Hemisphere in the early 70's.

Our animals live and graze naturally outside all year round.

I stick with NZ lamb, but joked when haggling with Monsieur w8rose hier soir, taking a small non-NZ half-shoulder joint, rtc £1.39.

I will Compare and Contrast, old exam-style. On verra.

Edwardia

I found this about Waitrose and halal, which specifically says that NZ meat must be stunned and therefore it's not halal. However, having read the Qu'ran myself, Muslims can make food halal by blessing it in circumstances when it cannot be ritually slaughtered.

http://helpandsupport.waitrose.com/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURATION=1006&PARTITION_ID=1&secureFlag=false&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2811

I wasn't actually asking whether NZ lamb is halal and I very much doubt that an animal whose throat is cut quickly, by someone skilled, with a sharp knife suffers any more pain than by being stunned.

I worked in a chicken factory as a student and they were stunned by electric shock before being plunged into boiling water and boiled alive. If they wriggled and missed the shock while hung up by their feet they went in the vat fully conscious.

Personally, as a former vegetarian now eating meat, poultry, game and fish, I try to ensure I buy food which had good welfare standards when alive.

I don't want to spend £6 on tough organic lamb chops when I can buy better quality grass pastured NZ lamb.

Scritti

funnyguy wrote: »

Mary had a little lamb,and I ate it.

Most inaccurate username ever.

Edwardia

In Sainsbury's today and three tiny tough organic British lamb chops for £6 is a rip off.

Found Sainsbury's Basics frozen New Zealand lamb chops 800g bag for 4.99 and the bag includes bits of lamb chop so I'd really only use them for casseroles but they'd be worth trying.

Did find a bag of frozen non basics NZ lamb chops which we bought to try but OH has wandered off with receipt in his bag so I can't tell you how much they were now sorry.

I live in a town of 50,000 people which has one non-organic butcher and no Farmers Market either. Welsh lamb may be delicious, I don't know, we don't get it in the local butcher or supermarkets.

If it's not organically reared, it can be fed GM feed whereas NZ is renowned for being GM free and the climate is such that the sheep can live out.