Do you find meat too expensive to buy?

Posted by: paradox

19th Oct 2011 02:39pm

I am retired and live in a Brisbane suburb. Since coming here from Darwin I am amazed at the low price of fruit and vegetable but distraught by the high price of meat. A few weeks ago however my wife and I stumbled across a Vietnamese market village and to our surprise found that the butcher there had meat far below what our local butcher and our supermarket were charging. The cuts are a little different but most fat is trimmed and if you request that something needs to be cut a certain way, you get service with a smile. We have since found a number of these butchers in our area and save sometimes as much as 50% on our purchases. Try it out if you can, it's worth it as the quality is excellent.

Frank Yates

30th Mar 2012 08:23pm

Yep the price of meat is Australia is terrible. The Quality is crap & price far too high.
I deal with people from around the globe even, the English visitors remark at how high our meat prices are. The pittance they pay the poor farmer's is appalling! Check the papers for meat prices. The poor farmers often pay more to raise an animal than what it is worth. The super markets claim it is the cost of transport & wages that put the costs up. Bull It is their profit margins that are sky high. The big supermarkets own their transport company's, butchers, slaughter houses etc.

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