"Important issues" Poly? Pull the other one, it doth have bells on.

The premise of this thread is no more than a sewing circle gossip session complaining about advertising and swapping tips on saving on meat purchases.

having been raised on a farm where we kill our own animals for consumption and have a butcher carve them up, we reckon it costs us around $6/kg. Yes Poly, you do then get fillet for $6/kg, but in a whole beast there is about 4 meals of fillet and an awful lot of sausages, gravy beef, osso bucco, corned beef and mince.

Dear Pollycarp,
The price I quote $ 3.30 was the price I recieve when I sell a beast to the meatworks. If some one choses to get that beast slaughtered with others in their family or friends most butchers accomidate them in a private kill which is done to an excelent hygine and legal standard at what ever your local butcher charges for privates. In sydney all food is available as bulk purchases from wholesale outlets. My wife
is very adapt at providing a first class article at low prices.
eg mangoes and lychee in season.

Thanx Richie...and Countrygal for those further helpful contributions.

Bugsy.. is there no pleasing you....ever ?

If I'm not "Bible Bashing..Mozzie Whacking.. or verse quoting".....I'm
now just a sewing circle gossip :)

I think you have some kind of huge chip on your shoulder.. not a good look Buggy.

To be fair Poly, yes it was a refreshing change to get off your Mozzie-bash mindset. But I still reckon you have a weird idea of what constitutes "important". It's a bit of a mix of what is truly important (occasionally), rabble rousings, moral panics and trivial nigglings.

Dear Bugsy.... you should know by now...that a forum like this needs COLORful and ADVENTurous people.. to be interesting.

If we were soaked in 'niceness' all day long it would get pretty boring.

If we are going to make progress with issues which do have high social importance, it should be accepted that people will present a range of views, including the extreme. Sometimes things expressed 'extremely' might be attention getters, and once a discussion is rolling, the issue can be fleshed out and fine tuned with further interaction.

This thread is just a reaction to a few people telling us (not 'reported to say' but actually saying it themselves...ie the Farmers)
That:

a)Supermarkets are the evil ones making huge markups
b)We are the poor buggers at their mercy.
c)We will offer you savings compared to the 'evil' ones.
d)We are the good guys.

When in fact they saved us nothing.. Snags at $14.00 a kg ? they live in cloud cuckoo land I'm afraid.

IF...they had said "in some cases we are more expensive.. quite a bit more, but our product uses better quality meat" I would not have griped..but they didn't.. they said

1/ Our quality is better.
2/ We offer 25% savings.

Point 2 was an outright lie on national TV aimed at promoting their very high cost meat.

All of us now know the potential and method for obtaining true low cost/high quality meat including the prime cuts.

My hope is that small groups of people will now band together and actually approach farmers who are willing to supply them this way and get a much better than gate price, and/or.. people will take advantage of the avenues we all now know of based on the helpful contributions of various knowledgable posters.