Brazilian Beef& Poultry Scandal

50HX

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/brazilian-meat-industry-plunged-into-major-scandal/



some frightening stuff esp on the chicken side

can we as irish producers expect an upturn out of this.........not a chance

duffysfarm

My wife came back with a packet of chicken goujons from the local butchers a while back and when I seen the packaging saying made in Brazil I told her not to get any more. I didnt know anything about bad meat at the time but it didn't make sense to me for some one to make chicken goujons so far away and ship them here at a profit. Was in the butchers again today and they are still on sale. Funny thing is that he has a sign outside saying all meat locally sourced.......

Grueller

duffysfarm wrote: »

My wife came back with a packet of chicken goujons from the local butchers a while back and when I seen the packaging saying made in Brazil I told her not to get any more. I didnt know anything about bad meat at the time but it didn't make sense to me for some one to make chicken goujons so far away and ship them here at a profit. Was in the butchers again today and they are still on sale. Funny thing is that he has a sign outside saying all meat locally sourced.......

Ya, from a local cash and carry operation.

duffysfarm

On a separate note the EU should ban Brazilian meat until this problem has been resolved. How many beef markets have been shut to Ireland over the foot and mouth still and that was years ago?

ganmo

50HX wrote: »

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/brazilian-meat-industry-plunged-into-major-scandal/



some frightening stuff esp on the chicken side

can we as irish producers expect an upturn out of this.........not a chance

There is a possible blow back on Ireland though. JBS own moy park and they were trying to set up a financial head office in Ireland a few months back

Willfarman

It depends on the tonnages and what went where.. But it ain't bad news for us. For once.

Waffletraktor

It's more of eu hypocrisy really, tie your own farmers hands to keep the place looking nice while we import any sort of shyte from over there as that's not here where our farmers are the bad guys mentality.

marknjb

i noticed a good few pallets of brazilian meat in a cold store i do work in asked the manager about it he told me one of the large supermarkets brings in and repacks it and sells it as product of ireland

Buford T. Justice XIX

marknjb wrote: »

i noticed a good few pallets of brazilian meat in a cold store i do work in asked the manager about it he told me one of the large supermarkets brings in and repacks it and sells it as product of ireland

Once you throw breadcrumbs on it, it becomes Irish Breaded Chicken.

Not Breaded Irish Chicken....

Pidae.m

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Once you throw breadcrumbs on it, it becomes Irish Breaded Chicken.

Not Breaded Irish Chicken....

That's depressing

Buford T. Justice XIX

Pidae.m wrote: »

That's depressing

Yeah, it is. Go into any supermarket and look at what they are claiming as Irish.

And very few consumers give a damn as long as they have enough for a few pints every weekend, they think, not too much admittedly, that they are buying Irish.

CallofGuti

It's shocking disgraceful but will the Brits really care if they have to get cheap food after Brexit because inflation rates are chronic high?!

Consumers quickly forget about these.

I don't like posting links here but read a piece by fj's beef man today about it. It's good reading.

Grueller

China have banned Brazilian beef and still no directive from the EU. Should be an immediate ban. Shows up the bolloxology regulation we are subjected to.

tractorporn

Grueller wrote:

China have banned Brazilian beef and still no directive from the EU. Should be an immediate ban. Shows up the bolloxology regulation we are subjected to.

Just announced that all Brazilian beef has been banned from coming into the EU. They took their time about it. If the shoe was on the other foot, other nations would ban EU beef almost instantly just look at what happened after BSE and foot and mouth.

leoch

i wonder will this have a positive affect on the beef price at the factory.....fingers crossed it does

tractorporn

tractorporn wrote:

Just announced that all Brazilian beef has been banned from coming into the EU. They took their time about it. If the shoe was on the other foot, other nations would ban EU beef almost instantly just look at what happened after BSE and foot and mouth.

Apparently it's just the factories under investigation not a blanket ban on all Brazilian beef. We really are a soft shower.

laoch na mona

Waffletraktor wrote: »

It's more of eu hypocrisy really, tie your own farmers hands to keep the place looking nice while we import any sort of shyte from over there as that's not here where our farmers are the bad guys mentality.

environmental dumping. Have controls in place in Europe to minimize environmental damage but support environmental damage in other parts of the world by importing crap produced in a much more destructive way

uck51js9zml2yt

How much Brazilian meat do we import?

pedigree 6

Grueller wrote: »

China have banned Brazilian beef and still no directive from the EU. Should be an immediate ban. Shows up the bolloxology regulation we are subjected to.

There's a lot of Europeans have feet in both the EU and Brazil and vice versa.
The links between Portugal and Brazil are so strong they might as well be the same country.

Cavanjack

leoch wrote: »

i wonder will this have a positive affect on the beef price at the factory.....fingers crossed it does

Now would be our opportunity to get exports going to china but I'd say the scandal will be well sorted by the time that happens.

cj maxx

As some one above posted it shows the constraints on Irish producers while bringing in cheaper , **** , produce from the Americas for the same consumers. Europe needs to apply the same criteria to imported food as it does to domestic crops. That includes rearing and slaughtering practices, meat storage and the wide spread use of roundup and other herbicides on wheat etc as feed.

Grueller

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/japan-canada-mexico-switzerland-and-hong-kong-follow-chinas-lead-and-ban-brazilian-meat/

Still the EU don't follow suit.

tractorporn

Grueller wrote:

Still the EU don't follow suit.

It's a disgrace imo. We are held to the highest of regulation and severely penalised if we step anyway out of line but yet the Brazilian lads sell us rotten beef and they seem to thing that's OK. Shows where the priorities lie. Make sure there's cheap food for the public. It's cheap for a reason lads.

DX85

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