Tesco Chicken

[gollob]

Tesco have just announced that after July all the chicken products in their supermarkets will be British. So where is the chicken coming from that they are selling now. It's very frightening where some of there products come from

[EcclesCake]

That isn't evidence, that is a third party claim.

I'm not bothered either way but if such claims are going to be made I'd like to see them backed up with some kind of documentary evidence.

[magsmay]

There is no need to be puzzled at where you meat comes from - read the label!! -Free range chicken produced in the UK is well marked with the union flag. You do not have to pay a fortune for good meat -Aldi have very good free-range chickens for under a fiver -and our local farm shop averages about £1 -£1-50 cheaper a kilo that supermarket beef and pork -and you can see the animals grazing in the field -gross maybe to some but at least you know where its coming from!

[Connemmara]

Why don't you look up in your own documentary - perhaps in google - meet up with a trusty-steed manager in McDonalds. Sure it looks the part anyway

[MadMen]

Conne, don't their adverts state that their meat is from British farmers... or is that something else?

[EcclesCake]

Trusty steed manager.....so there is horse meat in McDonalds???

[friedgreentomato]

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/whatmakesmcdonalds/articles/food-facts.html

Well according to this the chicken comes from UK, so someone is telling fibs - and I don't think McDonalds would risk telling lies - do you?

[maxi2]

I wouldn't trust Tesco on this. Not that long ago they were trying to convince us of their green credentials, yet they have been quite happy to source product (including chicken) from wherever in the world they can buy it cheapest with no regard for "food miles" or the environmental consequences of their purchasing decisions. 6 months down the road when all this has blown over they will revert to form and buy cheap from anywhere again. Greedy, rapacious and cynical. Avoid.

[MadMen]

I think I'd take the word of a huge corporation over some spotty oik who works in McDonalds. Lol

[gollob]

If Tesco admit that their all their chicken does not come from the UK they must know that their Beefburgers must have horse in them

[gollob]

Friedgreentomtoes
Perhaps you could tell me where it is marked on a packet of Sweet and Sour Chicken or Madras Chicken etc where it is marked where the chicken comes from .O f course it does not so why say such rubbish

[DTCwordfan]

Maccie Ds were taking beef from Russia - it's how they get their foreign exchange out of the place for their retail operations there....extensive beef farms, low pricing into the UK and Europe and then take the profits at the till in a convertible currency.

I looked at taking a job with their major logistics supplier Perseco (based near Marlow). They probably take some UK beef as a contingency and for the claim too...and there is also the question of where the meat is butchered and prepared - which will be the UK.

After all, plenty of companies do this. Zegna suits come from Mongolian wool, the body made in China and then final stitching in Italy but they claim "Made In Italy" - also brands like Chanel and Gucci make handbags in Korea, finishing them in France or Italy........

[Graham-W]

MadMen. Mc D's beef comes from the UK and Ireland and is fully traceable. Each carton of burgers carries a code that can trace the meat back to the processing plant, from there to the abattoir, and from there back to the farm the cows were fattened at, and from there to which farm they were born at.
That's why they have not been caught up in the horsemeat business.
ps. I have no connection with Mc D's and rarely eat there.

[DTCwordfan]

I agree re the abbatoir.....

they could also be practising bringing in live cattle and then executing them here before butchery.

[Connemmara]

Eccles do you now take my word seeing the excerpt from DTCword - told you I wasn't lying.

[Georgiesmum]

When i see K F C chicken, i often wonder what sort of life it had and where it came from.

[society]

Good info, DT.

[DTCwordfan]

I tell you what is unbelievable is how these folk transfer food and by-products around the world and extract their penny at each part of the chain...and here I am talking about the likes of Cargill and Archer Daniel Midland (ADM)..and then how the likes of Kraft and General Foods use every bit in brand products.....literally soy can be grown in the USA, the oil extracted, the hullssent to Argentina where they are processed into fibre feeds, the waste then shipped to South Africa where it is turned into poultry feed, the product then shipped to Cherry Valley in Herefordshire for the duck farms.....

[Graham-W]

You may think it's good information but here is the truth:
We only use whole cuts of British and Irish beef, sourced from quality-assured farms. We have long been recognised for having a first class beef supply chain and all of our beef is traceable, from the British and Irish farmers we buy from to our restaurants. Our burgers are made from 100% beef with nothing added except a pinch of salt and pepper after cooking. We don't use any binders, fillers or trimmings in our burgers.

[boxtops]

Our local butcher buys his chicken in from Holland - it's not just Tesco who ships in

[EcclesCake]

I haven't suggested that anyone is lying I'd just like to see current evidence to support the claims.