Irish chicken is fresher and better quality - please buy Irish

uberalles

Prog on RTE1 now.

Its possible we may loose all native Chicken suppliers. 90% imported!
There is a program on and a lot of Chicken from abroad (Thailand etc is 1 fifth the price to suppliers) BUT its often 7 days old!

Irish chicken is fresher and better quality - please buy Irish

Cill Dara Abu

Okay Mr. Corrigan

Where To

I don't eat chicken I eat hen.

Kadongy

because when the economy is bad it's important to pay five times the price for things

I usually get Irish chickens. Corn fed chicken is very good.

Vego

I prefer Argentinian chicken ......more flavour

DEFTLEFTHAND

90% imported? That's a shocking statistic for a country with such a large agri sector.

Badgermonkey

where do i go from here wrote: »

I don't eat chicken I eat hen.

Been to Abrakebabara?

Seagull.

strobe

uberalles wrote: »

Prog on RTE1 now.

Its possible we may loose all native Chicken suppliers. 90% imported!
There is a program on and a lot of Chicken from abroad (Thailand etc is 1 fifth the price to suppliers) BUT its often 7 days old!

Irish chicken is fresher and better quality - please buy Irish

How much of this 90% is purchased by individuals in shopping centres and how much is the result of chippers, restaurants, McD's, pre-made sandwich companies, etc though? I'm not sure it's your average man on the street that's the major problem here.

But that's a guess on my part, if anyone is aware of the numbers for chicken sold in supermarkets/butchers, Irish vs imported could they post them up please?

Personally I only ever buy Irish meat when possible. It's bloody lovely, the one thing we are genuinely able to compete with anyone else in the world on.

The King of Moo

I'm totally with you OP.

I always eat Chicken McNuggets in Ireland but I never even go to McDonald's at all when I'm abroad.

Ste_D

uberalles wrote: »

Thailand etc is 1 fifth the price to suppliers]

If chicken can be imported from Thailand for 1/5th the price then its not hard to see why the Irish farmers are not doing well.

Lapin

Down with racism against non national chickens. :mad:

spank_inferno

I'd love to get me some foreign cheaper chicken

All I see on the shelves are "fresh Irish" chicken.

Same goes for the thousands of tonnes of Brazillian & Argetinian beef we import but can never find.

I'm assuming it all comes in from abroad, gets an "irish" sticker put on it and then sold at 200% margin.

laoch na mona

buy irish or get out
also they took er chickens

fran oconnor

spank_inferno wrote: »

I'd love to get me some foreign cheaper chicken

All I see on the shelves are "fresh Irish" chicken.

Same goes for the thousands of tonnes of Brazillian & Argetinian beef we import but can never find.

I'm assuming it all comes in from abroad, gets an "irish" sticker put on it and then sold at 200% margin.

I think they get away with it by saying packed in Ireland. We should buy more irish though, its just a pity that it can't be sold at the same price as foreign ..

Wetai

And of course it'll cost more than any imported variety.

parrai

The problem with buy Irish is that it is a lot of it is too expensive... I am all for supporting the Irish market and local produce, but it needs to be more competitive. I understand that costs are high and all the rest, but I can guarantee ya, if the cost of local produce was cheaper, companies woud make more money in volume sales than screwing people to the wall with their current prices. This country is too expensive on everything...

starbelgrade

parrai wrote: »

The problem with buy Irish is that it is a lot of it is too expensive... I am all for supporting the Irish market and local produce, but it needs to be more competitive. I understand that costs are high and all the rest, but I can guarantee ya, if the cost of local produce was cheaper, companies woud make more money in volume sales than screwing people to the wall with their current prices. This country is too expensive on everything...

Irish food producers can't compete against Asian markets on price. Where they win hands down however, is on quality and a lot of people are willing to pay a bit more for fresh, homegrown, good quality produce.

That's why they survive... but only just in many cases. The main supermarket giants - more than any other factor - control the supply price of produce to the customer & also the profits to the producer... so if you're getting ripped off, it's not by the producer, but by the supermarkets.

And while it's easy to put all the blame on the supermarkets, it's also our own fault for not buying locally, supporting local businesses & handing all our cash over to the supermarket giants who now control most of our spend & most of the country's food production.

smk89

starbelgrade wrote: »

Irish food producers can't compete against Asian markets on price. Where they win hands down however, is on quality and a lot of people are willing to pay a bit more for fresh, homegrown, good quality produce.

No we aren't willing to pay more. We just aren't given a choice. LIDL and tesco both give no options of non Irish chicken.

Sergeant

Battery chicken is a disgusting lump of tasteless protein no matter where in the world it comes from.

admiralofthefleet

not only do i buy only Irish chicken but 99% of my weekly grocery shop is Irish, i buy as little foreign (including N. Ireland) as possible

WoollyRedHat

Will someone please think of the chickens?

number10a

It's them fecking Greeks. Coming over here stealing our jobs and our wimmin.

Cavehill Red

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

not only do i buy only Irish chicken but 99% of my weekly grocery shop is Irish, i buy as little foreign (including N. Ireland) as possible

Northern IRELAND isn't foreign. The clue is in the name.

J_E

As long as it tastes good and is cheap I couldn't care less where it comes from.

saywhatyousee

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

not only do i buy only Irish chicken but 99% of my weekly grocery shop is Irish, i buy as little foreign (including N. Ireland) as possible

I agree the only two country's i buy food from is Ireland and Italy the food from everywhere else is bland tasteless crap the Netherlands and Germany are the worst offenders where ever the import their food from they should stop.

fran oconnor

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

not only do i buy only Irish chicken but 99% of my weekly grocery shop is Irish, i buy as little foreign (including N. Ireland) as possible

And does your shooping bill work out much more than normal??. I'd like to buy Irish more, but sometimes its just to expensive..

admiralofthefleet

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Northern IRELAND isn't foreign. The clue is in the name.

it is. all money spent on tax in the north goes to elizabeth windsor NOT the Irish exchequer

Corsendonk

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

90% imported? That's a shocking statistic for a country with such a large agri sector.

Most of it is sold to the catering trade.

admiralofthefleet

fran oconnor wrote: »

And does your shooping bill work out much more than normal??. I'd like to buy Irish more, but sometimes its just to expensive..

it does but not by much. buying 1 more Irish produced item every week helps keep people in jobs

problemchimp

post no. 30 and nobody has mentioned swans? Have we matured?

PrincessLola

Corsendonk wrote: »

Most of it is sold to the catering trade.

Exactly. There's no point singing the 'Buy Irish' message to the converted (i.e the customers), when it is the businesses who don't give a f*ck.