A lot of 'my people” don't like to eat veal because of the way they are farmed. What they fail to understand is that Veals in their own environment are dangerous creatures, with razor sharp teeth. They are prone to hide in trees and drop on hikers and the like.
I have no sympathy for them.
What I am very much opposed to is the farming of boneless chickens, a barbaric practice that should be banned.
I do however enjoy a bit of bacon and have just come back from buying a few rashers. I was taken aback. $30 a Kilo for a nice bit of streaky, so I checked on line ASDA.CO.UK.
Streaky bacon $8 a kilo, bread and milk half the price of NZ, mushrooms a quarter of the price.
Are we being taken for a ride?
If that wasn't bad enough, I was recently in Countdown and they were selling dairy produce 5 weeks past its best by date. I brought it to the attention on the management, and informed them that next time I would make a formal complaint.
A few weeks later I bought dairy 5 days past its best by date, so tried to make a complaint, but it's apparently OK to do this. You can sell things 2 years past their best by date and its fine.
I wrote to Countdown head office and they agreed that this was not good and said they would look into it and get back to me. That was some weeks ago and I'm still waiting.
It's about time the public were given a bit better deal, when the recession really hits, a few of these shops will start to feel the pinch.
Chris Laycock, Tauranga.