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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: MAK on January 30, 2013, 08:28:00 am

Title: Supermarket price of pork
Post by: MAK on January 30, 2013, 08:28:00 am

Not sure if this should be in the "Jokes and Funnies" section.

All the supermarkets here are selling pork on offer at .

94.p a Kg !!!!!

They are also selling sacks of salt with pictures of pigs on so I guess people are making their own hams too.

Title: Re: Supermarket price of pork
Post by: Bionic on January 30, 2013, 08:45:04 am

Are you buying?

Title: Re: Supermarket price of pork
Post by: Tamsaddle on January 30, 2013, 09:09:11 am

Mind boggling.   Thank god it's not quite that bad here - yet.  Which bit of France are you in?   Tamsaddle

Title: Re: Supermarket price of pork
Post by: MAK on January 30, 2013, 10:12:00 am

We are still making hams from the 2 pigs we killed 2 weeks ago and the freezers are full of pork ( somewhere below the 9 rabbits I put in at the weekend).
Tamsaddle - we are in the heart of pink veal and beef producing area. Department La Creuse in the Limousin. Our neighbour sells his prize veal and beef to Italy or Paris and we only occaisonally see pigs in a field.
Supermarkets here have their own butchers and will display the providence of the beef, heard number, farmers name and town but I reckon the pork is flooding in from the north ( it is marked "origin France".)

Title: Re: Supermarket price of pork
Post by: Hassle on January 30, 2013, 11:37:02 am

There was a bit on the news about farmers saying make sure you buy pork from a source with UK standards