General Chat

We tried to stick to free range and humanely produced organic meats out of concern for animal welfare, but the uplift in price was just too much, in the end we had to go back to "normal" supplies. Funny though we also often found that the premium products we were buying were less tasty and poorer quality than the cheaper stuff.

I did start to wonder how much cheaper meat is being passed off as high priced organic, ok there are all the regulations in place but that meant nothing to the people passing horsemeat off as steak did it!

Mayfield

From my family tree notes ( there are a great many butchers and farmers ):

Mr Lehaire, formerly a respectable salesman at Smithfield referred to in the Times, 21 May 1836 as canvassing trade for the Islington Cattle Market.

Mr Lehaire, formerly a respectable salesman at Smithfield, was busily engaged in that market this morning canvassing the butchers to "come and buy" at Islington on Monday next, but not a Radical could be found; true to Conservative principles, they will neither destroy nor desert a free, open, and unrestricted market which is not merely convenient to, but promotes the interests of all parties, merely to gratify the self-interest of one, the cupidity of some, and the speculative views of others; and least of all men, are the butchers likely to leave a market where cattle are received direct from the grazier to the salesman, and as regularly sold the same day, for a market where the greater proportion of the cattle are jobbed (or forestalled) and turned out from market-day to market-day.

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose