Please Journal, write an article on why meat distributors are importing crap from Europe

price wars is the only reason they are importing,, same as everything else,, the big boys,, distributors are in so much competition,, tesco ,, dunnes , and so on,, its making things hard on distributors,,, dimplex Ireland had a factory in tralee,, moved it to china,, mary mcaleese went and opened it ,, while 300 people lost their jobs,, that’s progress and Irish tax money spent to put people on unemployment,, this is only the start of troubles here,,,

True…they’re full of salt with just one serving having anything up to 80% of the total recommended salt in take for one day.

If the meat factories didn’t import beef trimmings from Europe and just used 100% Irish beef it would be physically impossible to produce the burgers at the ridiculously cheap prices they quoted the big multi nationals for.The cheaper the product is the less you should trust just how ‘traceable’ the product claims to be. Its not just beef products that this applys to, just how Irish do you think your sausage is? If the pork trimmings come from Europe it doesn’t. have to say so on the label. The fact of the matter is people have been eating horse meat for years without knowing it and other people have become very rich on the back of it. Its about time this fraud has been exposed and well done to the Irish authorities for lifting the lid on this giant can of worms.

As soon as i read the headline of this article i said to myself i bet some really self indulgent righteous person would say ‘ ohh i would never eat these, their vile’ or something along those lines and sure enough the first two comments… the question is has it put people off buying them.. ye defiantly exclaimed that ye dont, (oh the horror) so the question doesnt apply to ye

I don’t eat frozen food.
Freezing was only used by Eskimos and other sub zero dwellers,
to store food during the winter when everything froze over. (where else were freezers available naturally in nature?)
And say what you like about “If food is frozen directly after being picked/processed it has just as much nutrients as fresh food”
That “fact” was probably conjured up by one of the same guys that are currently relabeling old worn out/dead nags as “Premium Irish Beef”
Farmers Markets, Small Producers or Grow Your Own only if you want your kids to be made of strong stuff.
If not, you can always take your chances with the leftovers and the byproduct lotto in the majority of the aisles in your local “super” market.

I’ve recently wondered about the new improved recipe labels on sausages etc…

Spot on Alan.
If you willing to eat this concoction of leftovers, byproducts, dying, diseased animal guts, offal and product ?????? mixed up with a bit of artificial flavoring and slopped out by criminals and “plain old people” who are willing to poison millions of innocent people for profit.
The least you should have is “what it says on the tin” and just as importantly the correct amount in which “it says on the tin”.
Just look at the heads on some of the greedy beef barons and “food producers” in Europe.
Would you really trust them to feed your family??
They should be in Jail.
Watch RTE and Co point the cameras the other way, yet again.

We made a decision a couple of yrs ago to stop eating all processed food, with all the GM, modified ingredients in the prepacked it’s very difficult to shop healthy for yr family…
All the artificial sweeteners flavour and preservative, we know are not good for us..
Organic, more expensive I know but as someone very ill said to me ” look at the price of cancer”.
This is only the beginning of what we will hear about what has been added to our food..

Exactly – you hardly expect to be eating good quality food when your basically paying nothing for it !

What are ‘they’? I think this is a bit of a generalization

Your ignorance and lack of knowledge regarding food preservation is shocking.

Tom, that was superb.
Your fan,
Adebayo

Ha ha that was the best comment ive seen on the journal.

There’s a Vegan/Eco-warrior conspiracy to turn children into sweet cakes? A here, leave it out… That’s going to feckin’ far.

Butchers don’t do many frozen products anyway so I’m not sure how much their business will have increased because if this! None of the stores fresh products have been effected by this as far as I know!

Hi Tom,I would think that’s an easy equation no?People stop buying frozen products and start buying meat from a tested source like their local butchers?

I’ve seen a load of butchers doing these little meal sets where you have a bit of meat or fish with some veggies all in an aluminium tray that you put in the oven.. Although – you can clearly see the cut of meat gone into it.
They’re usually fresh rather than frozen, but I guess this may be part of a drive to get people off the frozen processed stuff and back to the butchers – even for convenience.

A lot of vegetarians laughing to themselves while relying on tofu or soy for their main source of protein.. It’s fine in moderation – like anything else, but it’s full of phytooestrogens, so excessive amounts mess up your hormone balance – which is never a good thing. Oestrogen dominance can have disastrous effects on both physical and mental health.

It’s just as easy to be lazy about a vegetarian diet as it is to rely on processed meats..

It could be rabbit it tastes the same as chicken

“chinese takeaway is that really chicken and beef?” – very possible it’s dog and cat.

42% say No it hasn’t stopped them and with FF topping the polls again ye all deserve all you get, rats the lot!

hilarious really

Having grown up around a lot of Chinese people – many of whom were in the restaurant trade I can assure you. If there really was cats or dogs in your food – they would have been shut down.

The Food Standards Authority are very strict on these restaurants, they check them thoroughly and regularly – probably because of these sorts of urban myths.. How many times have you heard of a Chinese restaurant in Ireland being closed for using domestic animals? And they would be closed down, immediately upon inspection, were a dog or cat carcass to be found in their stores..

They don’t tend to use mince, or other processed meats – in an effort to ensure customers that they can trust what they have ordered. You’re more likely to find something you weren’t expecting in an Italian restaurant or as we are now painfully aware – a fast food chain, than in a Chinese restaurant. Perhaps it’s time to stop pointing that finger..

Quite a few Chinese Restaurants do use processed meats such as tins of Spam ham, etc.

Wanna buy a horse?

i’m one of those people who voted , i never eat them anyway as I couldn’t, I was born a coeliac, so all my life i have been reading labels and making home cooked food,( from scratch) but I agree with half your point, as people really dont know whats in their food and the snobbery that goes with it , some people even believe that home cooked foods means getting all the fresh ingredients and then adding a jar to stir fry, or add pkt of mix equals home cooked , it doesn’t its just fresh ingredients with processed taste subsitutes,

Obviously I’ve eaten rubbish like that in the past, but now I’d skip the entire frozen section when I’m shopping, along with with unfrozen ready meals.

Yu want to know who eats it? Poor people and lazy people. I used to keep a few for emergencies but I now eat most food fresh.

The most questionable product in the fridge is processed cooked ham I put in a sandwich for work.

Patrick I voted “never bought them anyway” I stopped eating them years ago when I realised I could make them myself from scratch and the food tasted so much nicer and was more healthy, Plus I could control the salt that was in the food. So sorry buddy no snobbery here just a lover of good healthy food. Have a nice day. xx

Single males and lazy bad parents.

And Jasnet Dixon, somebody actually thumbed you down.

All my family are brilliant cooks, father to blame for that and he literally engineered food, dreaful fella, trying to sneak liver into home made burgers, we all rebelled, mother was away and it was fish and chips from the chipper beside the Magic Carpet in Cornelscourt. We never got that treat again but he didn’t learn his lesson after that either!!

What dad did do was point out to us over the las 40 years and more, what we were making ourselves into, we took heed of his(boring) advice at the time and it paid off!!

@ADEBAYO FLYNN a bit of a generalization there single men and bad parents? sometimes parents feed their kids this food as it is the only food they can afford and they would rather them eat this then starve weather it be horse donkey or any meat it has some nutritional value don’t knock somebody because they are forced in to buying this some food is better than no food

It’s cheaper to cook yourself than buy a ready meal.

People not able to cook is he main reason people eat them. Home economics and cooking should be a life skill thought at school. It’s every bit as important as other subjects..

And ride him?

Yeah, they like Puffin in Iceland :)

That was the jockey’s fault. Try burgering him and see where it gets you.

Thanks for that. My day is now complete. Have a nice home cooked Sunday dinner as a reward to yourself. It consists of potatoes, vegetables of a green and orange nature. Lean butcher bought beef, red in colour depending on cut and gravy of a brown colour. :)

Grow your own.

Or GM meat and fish?

nah you’re just thick but that’s ok, go ahead support fraud from abroad.

Where’s Superquinn? Amazing they didn’t do a huge marketing drive seeing there’s not a peep about them selling illegally labelled food. Either they’re pure as the driven snow or their afraid to stick their head above the parapet. Come on Superquinn !

The superquinn nearest me has a very small ready meals section. The majority are Superquinn own brand, Cully and Sully, Bombay Pantry and one or two other brands which have not been named in this scandal. These are all fresh meals too – none frozen. They make up one section of the open front fridges.
I think for frozen meals there’s one small cabinet and that’s it. So perhaps they escaped by not having much in stock to start with?

lolol what was on the packet?

A picture of a smiling cow kinda horse creature, with zorro on its back.

really, you’d rather die that live, !!!!

I’d love to the monetary difference in cooking home meals and buying ready made meals. I buy mince and manage to get 4 meals from €7.00 worth. I think people have got lazy in preparing home cooked meals. It’s not just the price surely? It’s the convenience too. People just can’t be bothered to peal and chop anymore. We had poverty in the 70′s and 80′s, yet we all appeared to be fed and I don’t remember seeing too many overweight children. Time to get out the pots and pans, throw out the microwave and switch on the cooker.

It’s a huge con that the processed stuff is cheaper.
If you have a family then buying ready meals will work out far more expensive than cooking from scratch, the problem is the knowledge and the motivation. Many people actually don’t know how to cook, the idea of it either seems daunting or like too much effort (why do you think Jamie Oliver is doing “15 minute meal” shows?). It’s a pity, because between the fact that the shopping bill is really higher and the medical bills coming down the line from such unhealthy dietary choices will be higher – there’s no saving there at all.

Tara, is that 4 meals from €7 worth of mince ?

Snake has the same texture as chicken.

Just so you know…

:)

Ya cant even trust chicken. They pump the chicken breasts full of water and antibiotics.

Grainne, chicken isn’t exempt from this scandal either…

Chicken is the least trustworthy if its processed. I’m surprised that most nuggets and burgers are even allowed to be labelled as chicken.

rabbit had same texture as chicken just has a stronger taste

We had chickens when I was a child and the chickens you buy in supermarkets these days are worlds apart. A true organic chicken is yellow in texture and not pumped up with crap.

chicken nuggets and burgers don’t even look like chicken, full of sinews, brains, just dirt!

I feel like chicken tonight!