New Chicken Scandal : supplier fiddles dates.

Pelirocco you are very well informed. Do you happen to know if supermarkets have their turkey meat from Two Sisters or any other dubious suppliers please? Is a lot of this also imported?

I ask because I have serious health problems that mean I can only eat very lean meat and fish so I have to have a safe supply of chicken and turkey. I can't eat red meat, cheese, chocolate for example.

I am blue badge disabled so it is easiest for me to go to the nearest supermarket, Tesco and get my supplies. I know cheap poultry won't be great but I don't expect it to be unfit to eat and likely to cause food poisoning.

I even bought and returned Tesco Finest chicken fillets as they were spoiled.

It is all very well for people to say "buy from a local butcher" but 1. This is not easy for me to get to and 2. Is expensive and I and my wife only live on my disability pension until I turn 65 in a year's time.

As I said previously I don't expect supermarket poultry to be of great quality and taste but I do expect it to be fit for human consumption!

This issue is going to cause me quite a serious dilemma which is why I am so upset about it.

Vigman

I have not read the article online but I did read it in the actual paper, my indulgence of the week, bought because it was the lead article.

It has a list of all the food businesses in the same chain, and although I can't remember all of them, I do remember that Bernard Matthews is in the list so possibly that goes some way towards your question vigman. I don't eat turkey, but we do eat chicken.

I wonder whether this scandal makes it difficult for M&S to pretend their food is anything special...

Mee wrote: »

Worth looking at more recent Guardian editorials and letters on this matter

Many thanks for the link. I was surprised that Tesco did not immediately suspend sales of Willow Farm chicken.

Vigman

Mee wrote: »

I wonder whether this scandal makes it difficult for M&S to pretend their food is anything special...

It was obvious years ago, that their wrapped chocolate assortments were actually Quality Street and Roses with different wrappers.


I only buy chicken form Morrisons, now, as they declared that their meat was not produced the halal way, though New Zealand lamb was. This is nothing to do with religion, but unnecessary cruelty (beyond that of normal slaughter). Other supermarkets were coy, refusing to comment, saying there was a mixture of origins and one even saying it was ok as te animals were prayed over. (I had risked Aldi until a box of halal turkey was photographed on an aisle of a store; reply being most is not halal).


The picking up of food from floors is an old tradition in manufacture. At least the chicken will be cooked, but some years ago, school friends had summer jobs in a big name bakery's factory, making battenburg cakes.


The instructions were to pick up any marzipan offcuts from the floor and place them in machines that mixed them up to be reused as one would remix and roll pastry offcuts at home.