Yabby

Ar, Yabbs the smile was to have found you as you hide out from our questions.

Getting easier as your nose protrudes.

Even Pinocchio was concerned by your porkpies to the good people battling to buy a feed for their kids.

The old pensioners that deserve better as a few miserable low life’s that export our products to better paying customers strip the food off their tables just for a little extra fodder. Nothing left - there’s nothing left for these poor old fellas ;)

FAMILY budgets are under siege with grocery food prices soaring at more than twice the inflation rate for the second year in a row.
Weekly grocery bills rose 6.5 per cent in a year, eating into the average household income, which grew 4.3 per cent in the year to September.

On average, a standard basket of goods from Coles or Woolworths in Brisbane now costs $174.68 – up from $164.05 at this time last year and $152.90 a year earlier.

“But meat” prices rose sharply during the year – up an average 15.4 per cent, or five times the annual underlying inflation rate of 3 per cent – with industry groups blaming the rise on a jump in production costs.
The shortage of supply has pushed up prices...

No these live animal exporters have really effected our meat prices as you can see far more than anything else in the food line.

They are so bankrupt of principles they would by a starving bloke a pork pie ;)
For those who think we say this drawing attention- We do we do, we do., of course admit the cruelty is of higher concern than the future for families unable to purchase meat.

I was watching a poor old fella at the shops the other day picking up the meat packages and putting them down again- You could see he really wanted that meat but walked away.

I found myself wishing I had a camera to send a picture to Rudd AWB, Elders, MLA showing them what they done to this one old fella:)

Free diver if you watch that roo meat at Cole's the price can be halved as the use by date gets close.
In fact any meat can if you look for it.
Prices change yes naturally in the 1960,s half a mutton was $3.50 Fuel was 26 cents a gallon, $2.00 filled you tank and you got a weekend out of the change.
As a percentage of total income meat costs less not more today.
I for a while worked in a meat export factory then both beef and mutton, then and now I see no link to exporting meat and price in Australia.

Gertrude, there is hardly a thread that you would not try to turn
into one about live exports, but then you are obsessed, as we are
all aware.

Fact is that live exports don't affect what is in the Coles or
Woolies meat counter, as Aussies hardly eat mutton, unless its
ground up in their pies or sausage rolls etc.

If people want cheap meat, mutton is in fact there, but only in
small quantities, as not alot is sold. They can buy all the meat
they want at 6 bucks a kg. At 250g a serve, thats 1.50$ !
Compare that with 3$ for a cup of coffee and tell me what is value
for money. But you will no doubt continue to try and turn this
thread into yet another rant about live exports, as per usual.

Sheesh Gertrude, you need a boyfriend over there, so that you can
go and annoy him and give the rest of us a break :)

Yabby,

It is my fault live exports are effecting so much within Australia.

Dont you have Tv out here. Havent you seen all the today tonight and a current affairs programes explaining to the public that they atre now competing with world prices on food and its only going to get worse.

You should have seen some of the poor old buggers they had on TV trying to buy meat.

Theres not enough now as you know to fill the orders for the ever growing market as Asia gets stronger.

You cant deny the shortage of meat world wide and you cant deny the fact that Australia is the bi ggest supplyer of live animal;s.

Now it it only stands to reason if they are sending animals from Australia live and scambling to fill orders that nobody is too worried about the Australia public.

As you have pointed out so many times for us on this forum that farmers get a better price for filling overseas orders than even a dummy can work out we only get the rubbish and that when we can get it.

Am I annoying you Yabbs ,Gee sorry about that. Na, I would rather stick around talking to you Yabbs.

Now dont go trying to tell these good folk that sending our meat off as first prefernce dead or alive to overseas doesnt effect them at the check outs.
They are not that stupid. If we has as many abattoirs operating here as we used to the compertion would bring the price down for the customer.

You have said so yourself many times yourself so you cant now argue it both ways.

In other words you cant have your cake and send off the ingrediants to bake the cake too.

Food for thought:)

Gertrude, as a closet veggie, you would not have the foggiest about
what is in Australia's meat counters.

So I will list for you, what is this week on special, just in
today's paper:

Woolies, beef sausages, $3.27 a kg, half the price of their mushrooms.

Coles, rump steak for 8.97 a kg, chicken drumsticks for 3.99

IGA, 6.99 for blade steak 9.99 for eye round.

What meat shortage? Your post and mind seem as confused as ever.

Very interesting feedback and I am pleased to say that this is one topic I do know about.

Phoenix94, your comments
Nineteen years ago, local farmers would sell me a whole lamb for a spit roast for $35 and today I can get one for maybe $60 or $70.
How much are the supermarkets adding?

Nineteen years ago I could buy a whole sheep wholesale for $15.00. The farmer was lucky to get $1.00. True – one dollar. The rest was taken up with delivery, production, agent’s costs and government costs.

Interesting comment about pork. Did you know that last year 85% of all pork sold in Australia was imported! This includes ham, bacon and smallgoods.

As I don’t bag other retailers I will not suggest were it was sold through.

Belly, your quote,
I for a while worked in a meat export factory then both beef and mutton, then and now I see no link to exporting meat and price in Australia.

You see as a notion we export about 85% of the meats we produce. We do this through necessity as we over produce on mass because of our small population and high living standards.

The export market has the largest impact on our domestic meat prices and this demand is driven by the value of our dollar. At the moment meat is quite cheap because of the exchange rates, unless you buy ‘top shelf’ or organic. Be very wary though of ‘cheap organic’ as there quite simply is no such thing. I would also suggest you ask your retailer for proof that it is in fact organic.