Tax on bacon and sausage?

[El Cid]

Adding more taxes to the already high ones you quote will adversely affect the poor - and everyone else - you only have a finite amount of money so adding more tax will reduce the quantity of anything you can buy.

 

 

If the poor are eating meat now, are they really poor, or just relatively poor?

[truman]

If the poor are eating meat now, are they really poor, or just relatively poor?

 

Probably eating cheap meat...

[melthebell]

shhhhhh the meat eaters wont want to hear this! It's 'fake news'

 

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[RollingJ]

If the poor are eating meat now, are they really poor, or just relatively poor?

 

Like your selective quoting But to answer that specific point, taken out of context, just relatively poor - I suppose.

[Longcol]

 

I don't think supermarkets help either with their BOGOF deals always on the unhealthy stuff, not to mention the quality of meat compared to a butcher.

 

Last week I griped that I only got six rashers of bacon from the butcher compared to 8 in a supermarket packet. But the butcher bacon was much thicker, tastier, with no water flowing from it when cooking.

 

Unsurprisingly you can buy tasty thick cut bacon, in packets of six, than doesn't shrink when cooking it, in supermarkets.

[apelike]

shall we start at the beginning with the harmful chemicals pumped into the animals?

 

Harmful chemicals.. Such as?

[lil-minx92]

I dont buy into this 'use your local butcher not the supermarket' mantra. Not all local butchers are purveyors of fine quality meat, nor will they be have such stringent hygiene practices as the supermarkets. At the end of the day they are businesses and will just want to maximise their profit- buying as cheap as possible and selling for what they can. Their meat probably comes from the same wholesalers that the supermarkets use.

Obviously there will be 'artisan' or farm shop type superior butchers but most local butchers shops look a bit grotty to me

[ECCOnoob]

I dont buy into this 'use your local butcher not the supermarket' mantra. Not all local butchers are purveyors of fine quality meat, nor will they be have such stringent hygiene practices as the supermarkets. At the end of the day they are businesses and will just want to maximise their profit- buying as cheap as possible and selling for what they can. Their meat probably comes from the same wholesalers that the supermarkets use.

Obviously there will be 'artisan' or farm shop type superior butchers but most local butchers shops look a bit grotty to me

 

I would be in some agreement with that. I have always had a bit of suspicion with those sort of "must buy local" statements.

 

Yes I am sure some artisan butcher on Eccy Road or in Dore Village or at some country food market in the middle of Hathersage might well have good quality locally sourced. But I am not so sure that Bobs meat van parked up on an industrial estate has quite the same quality control.

 

There has always been a bit of inverse snobbery against Supermarkets from people who behind closed doors eat just the same.

 

Its like when you laughingly look through cook books from our so called celebrity chefs. Just, you know grab some quails eggs and some sqid ink and a sprinkling of smoked salt they say.

 

Oh aye, maybe in some shops on Kensington High Street perhaps. I will just pop into my local Happy Shopper and pick them up..... oh, all they seem to have a bag of spuds, some Crispy Pancakes and a tin of peas.

 

Back on point though, I would agree supermarkets have come on in leaps and bounds over the decades. I certainly have more faith in their standards as oppose some of the local vendors.

Edited November 7, 2018 by ECCOnoob

[El Cid]

Like your selective quoting But to answer that specific point, taken out of context, just relatively poor - I suppose.

 

If these relatively poor children are more likely to be obese; does that mean cheap food is not an issue?

Young school children get free breakfasts and a free meal at dinnertime!

[phil752]

I would be in some agreement with that. I have always had a bit of a bit of suspicion with those sort of "must buy local" statements.

 

Yes I am sure some artisan butcher on Eccy Road or in Dore Village or at some country food market in the middle of Hathersage might well have good quality locally sourced. But I am not so sure that Bobs meat van parked up on an industrial estate has quite the same quality control.

 

There has always been a bit of inverse snobbery against Supermarkets from people who behind closed doors eat just the same.

 

Its like when you laughingly look through cook books from our so called celebrity chefs. Just, you know grab some quails eggs and some sqid ink and a sprinkling of smoked salt they say.

 

Oh aye, maybe in some shops on Kensington High Street maybe. I will just pop into my local Happy Shopper and pick them up..... oh, all they seem to have a bag of spuds, some Crispy Pancakes and a tin of peas.

 

Back on point though, I would agree supermarkets have come on in leaps and bounds over the decades. I certainly have more faith in their standards as oppose some of the local vendors.

 

To be honest i always have a smile when i see farm shop selling quality meats Having been in the transport industry we have delivered a lot of frozen meats to more than a few of them.