Whistleblower - Sainsburys and Tesco ON NOW!!

[cleaninglady]

anyone who shops at either may be interested in this programme.....

Jajas, surely the free range chickens will eat the occasional maggot, ('Yum cluck yum') and convert it to delicious FR chicken meat

Getting to the point of changing channel.. this is so disgusting and i dont want to ever go to a deli counter again!

Eww fush knife to open drain! that is disgusting!!!

Nail clippings.

don't they have pride in their work???????

Don't they realise their friends and families will be consuming this stuff???

oh absolutely Jajas - sorry, wasn't disagreeing or suggesting the maggots were ok!
Gets worse and worse this prog doesn't it?

Hopefully a few heads will roll after this, but I can predict the statements that will be made by Sainsbury and Tesco at the end

organic box?

We do that; also farmers' markets for meat.

But we're lucky because we have a fantastic farmers' market near us once a fortnight, also 2 reasonable butchers.

Oh, also Jajas, you can learn 20 different ways of cooking old turnips and parsnips

predictable responses from Tesco and Sainsburys

company statements: 'blah blah blah not representative blah blah blah usual high standards blah blah blah no risk to public health'

but how can you trust anyone??
how could you know farmers markets and the rest were ok>?

so glad i had a vegetarian meal tonight.

hope i don't go down with something...........

Both of these companies are morally bankrupt.

yeuch - thank god i am vegetarian

No magic way of knowing, Elastic.... but if you buy direct from the producer there are fewer people in the chain who might have compromised the safety of the food IYKWIM. That's the idea.

Joanna Blythman explains it really well in the book I linked on the other thread - the industrial food production/supermarket system means that a lot of people will come into contact with your food who have no interest in it being safe (eg itinerant casual labour on farms, factories and shops; managers who are meeting short-term targets) but if you buy from a small local producer the customer has more comeback if he gets it wrong. If my bacon producer gives me food poisoning he can't blame it on anyone else because he's the only person that has had any contact with the meat before I bought it.

so it would be in his interests to be very careful

Exactly Elastic.

vom city! OMG - I was squirming through the whole programme. Good job I always buy the middle of the road ham in a packet, although I hate to think what happened to that before it got into the packet!

Have to say though, my dad is a butcher (a really good one) and he says you'd be surprised at what 'quaint market town butchers shops' do as well - meat that's over date and still sold and mould that's scraped off before being minced - and these are supposed to be good quality, high priced shops!

So I reckon we're best off doing a Gordon and rearing our own!