Europe Interfering With Mince Prices!

csnann

Butchers vow to fight planned EU ban on mince
BATTLING butchers launched a last ditch fight to save mince from meddling Eurocrats yesterday.
Brussels penpushers want to end the sale of properly aged beef mince - to prevent foodies poisoning themselves with raw steak tartare.
Farmers and butchers say the move will push up prices and make the family favourite less tasty.
And food bug expert Hugh Pennington says the new rules won't make beef any safer.
Our butchers traditionally hang meat for 14 to 28 days to give it flavour before cutting the carcass into joints.
The new health rules state meat used to make mince should be cut less than six days after an animal's slaughter.
The FSA opposed the moves but have admitted defeat and are now in the process of informing butchers and food processors that the new rules must be implemented immediately.
Industry experts say the price of mince could soar by 40p a pound.

More info here http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/03/24/butchers-vow-to-fight-planned-eu-ban-on-scottish-mince-86908-20361215/

Penny-Pincher!!

I read this today in the Daily Express paper and they estimated around £2 for 1 pound of mince. Also a tin of toms could be going up to over £1 a tin!!!!

PP
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Paulie'sGirl

Flipping Europe.

I like my mince aged. I will NEVER eat steak tartare. I LOATHE seeing Health and Safety used as the excuse for someone's batty ideas (being an H&S advisor)

Oh I'm so cross....

mumoftwo

I feel a tinned tomatoes and beef shopping trip coming on..

chocolate.orange_2

mumoftwo wrote: »

I feel a tinned tomatoes and beef shopping trip coming on..

I was just thinking the same about tinned tomatoes

Off to fill my basket with tesco value chopped

Anyone who shops at asda i seen 5 for £1 there last week chopped or plum.

Quasar

If it's in the Daily Express it's probably not telling the whole truth. Sorry but the Express and the Mail are very much anti-Europe to begin with, so they are going to slant any news to suit their agenda. Methinks it's another case like the bananas all of the same size... an incorrect reporting.

donny-gal

OK, but how do they justify the price hike? Is it just another excuse to put prices up, blaming something else? Where did the tomato price hike come from I missed that?

Yet again Europe make a ruling, we (like sheep) apply it and the rest of Europe thumb their nose at it and do it their own way.
DG

kippers

Another thing us old stylers will have to contend with..i also agree with chocolate.orange... it may be time to do some tinned tomato and mince beef shopping.

It was also on the BBC news yesterday about minced beef.

Farway

I have to agree with Quasar on this, maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought mince was made from the rubbish that could not be sold as "proper" meat anyway, like lungs, ears etc

So if true I guess the uproar is about closing a method of fobbing rubbish off onto the UK consumer

Reminds me of the uproar when the EC insisted we actually made ice cream from milk and used dairy fats / cream instead of adding veg oil, same happened with chocolate, using veg oil as cheap substitute for cocoa butter, and when our brave producers had to start using more meat derivatives in sausages instead of bulking up with bran or similar

trying-very-trying

Farway wrote: »

I have to agree with Quasar on this, maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought mince was made from the rubbish that could not be sold as "proper" meat anyway, like lungs, ears etc

I don't know what kind of mince you buy, but I only buy minced steak, the same cut as stewing steak isn't it

Stephen_Leak

Firstly, cheap minced beef isn't made from offal, but is from offcuts from cuts of meat with a high fat content. I still use cheap mince but I know that I am going to have to drain off and/or mop up quite a bit of excess fat at the end of cooking.

Secondly, I agree that the UK tabloid press has never been one to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Finally, for truly top notch and OS mince, all you need is some chuck steak, which is reasonably cheap but doesn’t have too much fat, and one of these ...