Is the meat in Alda/Lidl safe? What's the quality of it?

The Recliner wrote: »

It is in Ardee Co Louth, it says so right here on their contact page
http://www.aibp.ie/location.html

does northern ireland have the same principles of rearing pigs, chickens, cattle and sheep as southern ireland, what about tracing back to the farms

Sorry to ressurect an old thread but I'm so confused. Few questions I'd really appreciate is someone could answer..

How do you find a good butcher and how do you know he's being honest?

Is there such a thing as sausages and rashers without additives, like freshly made ones that are just meat sliced off the bone or minced and put into cases?

Is there any reason not to eat pork in general, I know it often has lots of salt in it or is it just safer/easier to stick to Irish beef and lamb?

Do you need to make sure pork is labelled free range like for chicken?

So for chicken you should go for free range, anything else need bearing in mind when you buy it? Is it usually very watery looking and plump or are the cheaper breast like that for a reason?

Is it generally best to just go for grassfed Irish lamb and beef then for health and environmental reasons?

as an insider
can you tell me that their meat is 100 percent irish reared irish butchered and fully traceable, as i can understand the lettering on our own local shop bought as on the other hand aldi does not give the name of a farm nor do i recognise their branding
also i am not saying their goods are not good
just saying i only trust irish reared and butchered meat, would not buy any other, also eggs have to be from local freerange farms for me

what are the names of these farms in ireland and addresses, also these numbers what do they mean, as if you were reading the supplement on the farmers journal you would have read different, is this meat prepared in ireland, or is it reared and sourced within ireland, i would like to see the full address of the farms if you could

just googled that name, nothing showed up, also do they import the meat and package it here
as meat is called irish when people wrap it here in this country, but the meat can be from anywhere in the world, as in chicken fellets breaded here but the chicken is from abroad,
i dont care where it is packaged, i do care where it has been reared and slaughtered, and i only buy irish reared and slaughtered meat, we have a very stringent process here, where as in other countries it would not be the case

i like steak, and the colour of theirs seem to be bright red, where as the local steak which come from farm near me is a more dark red, their legs of lamb look off putting to me also, not very natural look, i do not buy their meat and will not ever, as i have a hunch that the eggs and meat come from outside of this country, our farmers are our backbone as are our fishermen and there too i will only buy from the producer

tk123 wrote: »

We'll have to agree to disagree about the steaks - John K. Walshe is doing a great job with those rib eyes imo!!

will be asking someone i know that work for the department of agriculture, as he travel the country to meat producers,

The Recliner wrote: »

It is in Ardee Co Louth, it says so right here on their contact page
http://www.aibp.ie/location.html

AIBP is Larry Goodman's company, also supplies McDonalds and Burger King and most of the Irish supermarkets

http://www.bordbia.ie/marketplace-buyers/fresh/meat/pages/aibp.aspx

smokin ace wrote: »

i work in a sheep factory in the south east and we supply some lamb to lidl (chops and legs) and we have some very high standard of lamb going out to the shops but i still would not eat lamb as i find it very high in fat and i dont like the smell of it when cooking but each to there own but the quality of the meat in the shops are very high including lidl

this is very good to hear, will be looking out for it in future,
thank you

weeder wrote: »

the "brannans" irish sausages and rashers in lidl/aldi had big PRODUCT OF FRANCE stickers on them during the pork recall :rolleyes:

during the recall every supermarket trashed their pork stock and switched to imported product overnight. surely it should be to their credit that they clearly labelled the country of origin on the meat during the temporary period where it was imported. if they didn't do that there would have been no fry for breakfast over that new years holiday!

there's a bit of of mis-information on this thread about the origin of meat.
Aldi and Lidl have the bord bia quality mark on nearly all of their fresh beef pork and chicken. this is 100% equivalent in quality to the meat in other supermarkets, in many cases it's even from the same factory (and packed in the same factory just with a different label for each supermarket). the quality mark tells that the product was reared and processed in the republic (if it's from the north it has the origin NI logo). you also know that both the farm and factory get audited by Bord Bia.
you can look for the factory number in the oval stamp on the product, but this only indicates where it was processed, not where the meat came from.