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no other information,am I right in thinking the animals would have been transported to another country for slaughter and packaging?
I bought pork loins and noticed it just said reared in Holland .

I just taken some chicken out the freezer,bought in tesco...origin Holland.
Never noticed that before.

Marion

My pork was from Tesco too.Marion.I notice that the British meat sold there has lots of info ,like the farm and area,and I think where processed (I may be wrong on the last bit)
I just hate the idea of animals being reared in one country then having the traumatic ordeal of going oversea to be slaughtered.

this may be wrong, but I think on a lot of processed or packaged items the "origin" only has to be the last place it was processed / packaged, i.e. a meat pie could be made in UK but the meat could come from somewhere else

Just checked my stir fry pork from Tesco..its British.

These days, I am fortunate to buy my meat at a newly found, but local farm shop. They rear their own animals, and slaughter them. Even the eggs are from their own birds. I became disenchanted with supermarket meat, never knowing where it had come from etc. I appreciate that not everyone is fortunate enough to have a farm shop on their doorstep.
Julia in Derbyshire

You are lucky to have a local farm shop, but I have also fallen for them on occasion, where despite the impression to the contrary, much of their produce was bought in from outside.

In reality what we need to do is to pay our food producers a proper rate for their products. There seems to be to many middle men wanting a cut, which doesn't happen in the same way abroad, I could never understand why the French and Belgians pay British farmers more than they can sell for over here, but still manage to sell cheaper to the public. Scottish Salmon far cheaper in Brussels than what it costs here?

Oh, and stop paying farmers to turn meadows into wild flower havens, pretty as it may seem.

I went to England about two years ago and brought some bacon back with me,and when my hubby seen it he started laughing did you read were it come from ,i said no had alook and it said Holland so i had brought back to were it come from LOL

Awww that was nice Dutch...taking a wee piggy home lol

BrinsleyS - yes I agree with you that some of these farm shops are abit of a misnomer. But the one I have found, is acually at the farm itself, and established over 200 yars ago, the farm that is. Also they did have had a butchers shop on the local high street for years, so I think they are genuine.
I do agree, that the whole farming industry, if that is what you can call it, needs looking into. I programme running on Friday night on some semi obscure channel fronted by Jimmy Docherty (sp), was very interesting last week. Alot to do with organic farming.
Julia in Derbyshire

Somerfields chicken origin is either from Holland, Germany or France. Must admit l buy all my meats from the butcher, most of it is from Welsh farms or England. They have 2 lots of bacon and always ask "do you want the British or European".
Having said all that, this afternoon l bought some lamb from Somerfields cause l did'nt have a choice:o((

jude

It seems crazy that animals may be breed here,sent abroad to be killed and then brought back here.
I do like meat,but hate it when I see these huge lorries with the sheep or cows stuffed in,and you can see their faces squashed up against the side .I know they have to have them squeezed in so tight that they don't fall over and get injured,but I don't look anymore.

There's a loop hole in the law. Which allows imported meat, fruit & veg, which is processed & packaged in the UK as being British.

You need to check the label, to see if states as grown or reared in GB,

If it says British produce. Then its almost certainly has been import into the UK.

Steve

We travel 20 miles once a month to buy meat from a butcher who can name the farms where most of his stock comes from.

I think I will have to start going to one of the farm shops in future.