Tesco 'British' pork 'highly unlikely' to be from UK - Tesco let us down yet again

A._Badger

I'd add Morrison's to the role of honour here. Tesco consistently seems to come out on the wrong end of these stories, while Morrison's seems to do pretty well, along with Waitrose - though I seem to recall that even Waitrose fell foul of the horsemeat scandal.

Perhaps if instead of letting the supermarkets off scot-free over the horsemeat saga, as the toothless government regulator did, there had been major, painful, fines (or even criminal prosecutions), this sort of food adulteration and mislabelling would be reduced or virtually stopped.

Tesco's excuse, once again, is pathetic. It is the retailer's job to make sure it knows where its products come from.

Roxy07

The beginning of the end for Mr T.

Kirri

LadyDee wrote: »

I am so thankful that I am vegetarian.

Agree, plus any meat scares at least make people think more about what they are eating.

But there are still ways to catch us out!

Story in the DM (I think it was) today about a muslim buying a labelled cheese slice in Morrisons which turned out to have meat in.

Wilkos have just recalled garlic capsules which iirc had gelatine in that was not labelled.

Flu vaccine has just been reported to have pork gelatine in. Again though story was reported in a muslim offensive type of story rather than for veggies and gelatine is in a lot of meds anyway..

^ not that I have any of the above, but even as a veggie I'm a bit wary of retailers mislabelling or not knowing what is in things..

LadyDee

Kirri wrote: »

Agree, plus any meat scares at least make people think more about what they are eating.

But there are still ways to catch us out!

Story in the DM (I think it was) today about a muslim buying a labelled cheese slice in Morrisons which turned out to have meat in.

Wilkos have just recalled garlic capsules which iirc had gelatine in that was not labelled.

Flu vaccine has just been reported to have pork gelatine in. Again though story was reported in a muslim offensive type of story rather than for veggies and gelatine is in a lot of meds anyway..

^ not that I have any of the above, but even as a veggie I'm a bit wary of retailers mislabelling or not knowing what is in things..

I wonder if the DM would have bothered printing the cheese/meat story if it had been reported by a vegetarian? Many (not all!) meat eaters have little awareness of just how offensive it would be to a vegetarian to find meat in something that shouldn't contain it.

All companies, all supermarkets make mistakes, make bad judgments - it's how they deal with them that is important. If they sold me a veggie sandwich which turned out to have meat in it I'd expect at least a month in a health spa to help me recover from the shock;)

Edwardia

My mother says that years ago Tesco was seen as really downmarket. So maybe underneath Tesco hasn't changed much and it's all smoke n mirrors flash advertising that lulls us into thinking Tesco has values.

I went organic after finding 11% added water and glucose syrup in plain Tesco pork loin steaks in March 2012 and whenever I can find an organic, wild or additive free version of something I want, I buy it.

I have had Tesco organic meat and veg before now, but if Red Tractor turns out not to be British, then I'm not risking their organic now.

I'll still buy offers on loo rolls, stationery, DVDs etc but if it goes in my mouth it won't be bought from Tesco :eek:

gnvqsos

Edwardia wrote: »

My mother says that years ago Tesco was seen as really downmarket. So maybe underneath Tesco hasn't changed much and it's all smoke n mirrors flash advertising that lulls us into thinking Tesco has values.

I went organic after finding 11% added water and glucose syrup in plain Tesco pork loin steaks in March 2012 and whenever I can find an organic, wild or additive free version of something I want, I buy it.

I have had Tesco organic meat and veg before now, but if Red Tractor turns out not to be British, then I'm not risking their organic now.

I'll still buy offers on loo rolls, stationery, DVDs etc but if it goes in my mouth it won't be bought from Tesco :eek:

Tesco values were highlighted by Dame Shirley Porter who sold off council homes to yuppies in Westminster effectively cleansing the wards of working class voters-she was the daughter of the founder George Cohen.George Cohan wrote Yankee Doodle Dandy and also played for Fulham.

5555tt

We've bought their ginger wine ;its got white powder around the neck everytime ,never got this with Stones traditional wine
Seeing the R.I.P off food Prog ,the chicken episode ,they can put 0.0000001 ,forever and still say theres chicken in it (available on youtube).Tesco also drops the main ingredient list ,just a few percent%;it may add up to their profits ; have said to the staff that it will come around , theyadd false color & all kinds of rubbish to bulk it up;noticed this long before the r.i.p food prog;all the vouchers in the world wont get us back in there,the vouchers are personalised to get you to spend a lots more than you would . Tesco stick your £3 of £20 ;with your false horse meat & strawberries ; china is so lucky to have got rid off you

gnvqsos

A._Badger wrote: »

I'd add Morrison's to the role of honour here. Tesco consistently seems to come out on the wrong end of these stories, while Morrison's seems to do pretty well, along with Waitrose - though I seem to recall that even Waitrose fell foul of the horsemeat scandal.

Perhaps if instead of letting the supermarkets off scot-free over the horsemeat saga, as the toothless government regulator did, there had been major, painful, fines (or even criminal prosecutions), this sort of food adulteration and mislabelling would be reduced or virtually stopped.

Tesco's excuse, once again, is pathetic. It is the retailer's job to make sure it knows where its products come from.

Tesco should place an inspector in the packing and processing plant,and make frequent farm visits.Personally I would not use a supermarket for meat-local butchers are cheaper,better quality and tell jokes.

A._Badger

gnvqsos wrote: »

Tesco values were highlighted by Dame Shirley Porter who sold off council homes to yuppies in Westminster effectively cleansing the wards of working class voters-she was the daughter of the founder George Cohen.George Cohan wrote Yankee Doodle Dandy and also played for Fulham.

Good to see you maintaining your usual standards of accuracy and idiocy. His name was Jack, by the way. He was a former East End market trader..

Doc_N

Edwardia wrote: »

My mother says that years ago Tesco was seen as really downmarket. So maybe underneath Tesco hasn't changed much and it's all smoke n mirrors flash advertising that lulls us into thinking Tesco has values.

She's right, of course - until the 80s it was a very downmarket operation still very much reminiscent of founder Jack Cohen's 'pile it high and sell it cheap' philosophy. Customers were almost exclusively working class, and the middle classes wouldn't be seen dead in it.

That changed over the years and it overtook Sainsbury's by revamping its stores (and its attitude to customer service), managing to appeal to the middle classes, who had the most money to spend.

Now, Waitrose has taken the high ground, Sainsbury's has regained a lot of its former glory with its highly successful CEO Justin King, and Tesco is left struggling. Aldi and Lidl are taking a lot of its customers at the bottom end, and Waitrose/Sainsbury at the top end. Tesco's in the middle, being squeezed at both ends, and if I still had shares in it, I'd be selling.

It's a downmarket store trying unsuccessfully to keep its higher spending customers, and stories like this, the horsemeat and the fake pricing aren't going to help it any.