I paid a visit to my closest Woolies Supermarket yesterday, which involves a round trip of 100km. While I was in there I paid my usual lip service to the meat department:...."mumble, mumble,....ridiculous!"... headshake and move on! A thought occurred to me right then!...I have noticed every time I visit these Supermarkets that most people who don`t bypass the Meat Department, seem to become very despondent and very few ever seem to buy anything, but tend to walk away and buy other foodstuffs!

The Meat display cases are always fully stocked with virtually every type of meat and all have a use-by date (usually only a few days) on the price label!....the question I ask is "what happens to all this meat that is obviously NOT sold due mainly to price and customer resistance?"

I thought of maybe asking the store manager (if I could find him) but discarded that idea, as I never seem to get an honest answer, if I get any answer at all to a question regarding store policy!

Anyone with even a glimmer of modern day budgetting would realise the total potential value of ALL that meat must be astronomical, considering today`s outrageous prices!

If this "left-over" meat is thrown away,....what a stupid and needless slaughter of Cattle and Sheep! If the meat is being recycled, then we the customers are being taken for a ride! If the meat is claimed as an insurance loss, then it is time it was stopped and more efficient business practices were utilized by reducing the scandalous profiteering that is currently occurring!

Is there anyone out there that is prepared to tell us all the truth about this situation?

*what happens to all this meat that is obviously NOT sold due mainly to price and customer resistance?"*

Clearly your observation in incorrect, for billions of $ of meat
IS sold every year in Australia. If any remains onshelf on the use by date,
a little discount sticker is attached, cutting its price to more like
cost and it whizzes off the shelves, bought by people focussing on price.

As to cost, it depends on the cut. Luxury cuts can be expensive,
many other cuts are in fact cheaper then alot of vegetables and
fruits.

So in terms of $ value for nutrition, meat is cheap. Compare
it to the cost of processed foods in pretty little packets,
on a weight for weight basis and its a bargain!

I'm not sure weight-for-weight basis is all that meaningful. It's surely the calorific-nutritional basis that matters. On that basis, some cuts of meat would still be cheaper in the short run than certain forms of fruit & vegetables, but the long term health (and environmental) costs of eating too much meat and insufficient vegetables are not factored in there either. If they were, meat would be consistently more expensive than fruit & vegetables. Even as a regular meat-eater, I don't believe that would be a bad thing at all.

However yabby has got it right, very little is wasted if any at all.
Try an early Sunday morning walk around those same displays and see discounts you would not believe.
I think very few cattle or any beast are killed just to waste, a lot of money is invested in them.
Humans do waste food too much of it, but it is hard to see many even caring about it unless it costs too much to do so.

I must state in opening that I am "guilty" of eating
*WhaleMeat* on a mini-barby in HiraKata, Nihon.
Dark, v.rich, BUT, I am wet behind the ears, snotty nosed & freely admit 2 indulging in "imperfection" from time 2 time.
..
Have a Heart 4 Jonah in the Whale, as as
!WE ALL KNOW!
it doesn't matter how much Whale or Tiger Donger they eat,
(if all they can do is cry to the war kriminals when defiled)
they'll always b "Little Pin Dicks"
ey *RodneyRude* - HaHaHa
..
Despatch a delegation to *Kyoto* for a Kanji interpretation & Organic Life Form appreciation lesson with our own *MrRoy&HatsumiiSan*
Bu,Shi,Do,Nin & MU.
..
Spare *Jonah* & assist in the prosecution & expulsion of *Muttley*
from Japan.

...Adam...

A good friend of mine used to work at as a meat inspector, I did ask him what they did to the meat to make it look so fresh (red).I was not surprised by the answer he gave me. Sodium Nitrite (poison) to keep it on the shelf longer looking fresh.No wonder he finished up with a brain tumor after handling all that meat over those years. Make up your own mind were it goes from there.I think I made my dog suffer and shortlived by having given her (fresh) meat.I personally won't eat that sh.. anymore,unless it comes straight from grass fed and un-vaccinated animals.