Not really [but I understand you r point] - these have actually been poisoned by animal flea killer - still that's the EU - pure as the driven snow
Exactly! Especially now that some supermarkets are relabelling their "value" ranges. At least I can go to the farms I get my food from, and of course it is not that easy to get organic status.It helps to know where food comes from although it has come to light that some 'farms' mentioned on cartons/packets don't actually exist
Whilst I am no fan of the EU, I don't think you can blame them for this - they put in place regulations banning the use of this pesticide anywhere near food production. Try pointing the finger at the commercial cleaning firm who used the offending products to clean hundreds of hen houses across Belgium and Denmark, or the farmers who employed them, or the Belgian government who allegedly kept the whole thing under wraps for several weeks instead of alerting the appropriate EU authorities. Maybe look a bit closer to home at why our supermarkets need to buy cheap, inferior eggs from overseas when we have a ready supply of quality British Lion Marked eggs over here.
I agree , I am only pointing out the strange belief many [and yes it is many] people seem to have that the good old EU has [and faultlessly maintains] such high food standards [I remember the French wine scandal - antifreeze I think it was] and that to risk leaving the EU will result in us all being poisoned by those 'nasty foreigners' [ie anybody in the rest of the world in fact] or being starved by being unable to produce any food of our own. Yes of course we can't produce ALL our own - Britain is and always has been a trading nation but we can produce some of it. Are our farmers perfect - no, of course not but at least they will be bound by our standards and policed by our inspectors. Why our supermarkets buy such things is quite irrelevant. but being in the EU I suspect that one of the reasons might just we have to accept so much european produce - like it or not.
. I think I see where you are coming from, but I still don't think its fair to blame the EU for the criminal or negligent actions of rogue producers. Don't forget that we have had our own share of problems - BSE, Salmonella in eggs, horsemeat labelled as beef etc. On balance, I would trust the EU to protect food standards over our own government. It is the EU that has largely kept GMO's at bay, despite aggressive lobbying from our own government. Remember Owen Patterson's antics when he was Minister for Agriculture? Not to mention the lunatics at Rothamstead.
Actually, it's not. Unfortunately, we live in a society obsessed with ever lower food prices regardless of the impact on quality. Inevitably this puts a squeeze on the whole supply chain, and corners are cut. If only consumers put quality before price then such food scares would not happen.
I understand that there is a worldwide shortage of butter, so that probably explains the hike in price, although I haven't noticed it over here. The bubble has burst on the fat/cholesterol myth, and people are switching back to butter from processed margarines in huge numbers, hence the shortage.
I have a standing order for my butter (from Brue Valley, one of the dairies that said the price was going to go sky high), but I've noticed when I've been shopping that the supermarkets no longer seem to have much organic ordinary butter any more and no unsalted organic butter at all. Organic produce seems to be harder to get hold of in either Tesco or Sainsbury's locally although some is still available online. As far as milk is concerned, the only unhomogenised milk I can get locally from a supermarket is Channel Islands milk from Tesco. I still get that as an occasional treat, although the fat content of it is only very slightly more than the milk I get regularly (5% as opposed to 4.5% from the farm, or 4% from the milkman).