The post on petrol reminded me.
Anyone else noticed the price of meat going up the last couple of years where you are?
Where is the $3-$4 KG stuff you used to be able to buy at the supermarket? I see regular cuts for 9$ -$20 a kilo.
And fancy stuff up to $40 a kilo. it'll be cheaper to eat lobster soon!

Karl.

Hi Karl, Good Point, The Drought must have a lot to do with the Prices of Retail meat.. Considered doing what I do from time to time.. Take yr Rifle_Shotgun out west and Take a Knife as well as an Esky full of Ice..
I'm currently working on a 12 volt air con powered Coolroom for the back of my 86 Dyna.. Got the Unit Got the Panels just need to put them together..
Cheers
Luke in Oz

A friend of mine raises 'export beef' out Injune way.
Last year on a visit to Brisbane, he told me that Australia was full of miracles because he looked in a butcher shop and saw a sign that read, "hind quarter export beef (approx 70kg)"
"Fuck me," Peter exclaimed, "when I sell them 30 month old export bullocks off my property, they got four legs and by the time they get in the butchers here, the cunts have got fucken eight!"

Karl

And would you guess. The farmer gets the same or less for the same animals.

The middle men are raking it in and ripping us all off.

It is due to the increasing monopolisation of wholesaling and retailing by the big supermarket companies - Coles Myer, Woolworths etc.

In my area, smarter folk can go right to the farmer for quality beef, pork, hogs, poultry and sheep. All you need is a good freezer as most only sell in bulk. But this is the way to go. It also insures you are not buying hormone and antibiotic stoked meats!

I rarely buy meat anymore since I now hunt and also raise my own chickens. I saw a porterhouse steak at the grocery the other day, it was almost $20. I was stunned at the cost! Just four years ago I was paying $5 for the same damn steak, I thought that was expensive then, so I went hunting.

You can bet food prices will continue to creep upward, very quickly. With fuel prices soaring it won't be long before everything else does too.

Good thing the deer are corn fed in my area, not much change in flavor from beef plus a whole doe costs me just $7.

IT WAS BLOODY WILD GOD DAMMIT WOMAN



Meat up here in the NT is pricey because of freight. We used to have a meat works in Katherine but the stations were getting a better price overseas for live cattle, so the meat works closed down. You can kill your own here all you need is a cow,coolroom and the time, alot of people still do. TAFE runs a butchering course for the stations if you want to learn to break down a carcuss

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Jeeze, I was on night shift when I wrote that muzza, a little leeway thanks

Yes you can still buy animals "on the hoof" and butcher them yourselves as far as I know. But even that might be "under examination" I think I recently heard. The "health and safety" Nazis are running riot in this country and have most people brainwashed into believing anything not processed "officially" and stamped with a use-by date is poisonous. When I tell them I have eaten hundreds of animals and birds shot, killed and butchered in paddocks or behind the farm sheds and never got sick but certainly have from meat bought in shops, they stop to think. But the brainwashing runs deep and sheeple has real problems breaking from flock thinking ie thinking for themselves.

The next thing is people have to do many month long TAFE courses on kitchen hygiene and become licensed before they can either cook or run a cafe/restaurant, or make food for sale (eg preserves etc). Obviously home skills now need to be learned from academics and from books not real life practice.


If farmers could selll meat at the farm gate, the prices in the shops would be HALF what they are now. And it would be cheaper than that at the farm gate too.


An example. I sell venison (on the hoof) to the processor for around $2.00 to $2.80 per kg. It sells in butchers shops for over $28 per kg. Most goes straight to restaurants.

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Meat up here in the NT is pricey because of freight. We used to have a meat works in Katherine but the stations were getting a better price overseas for live cattle, so the meat works closed down. You can kill your own here all you need is a cow,coolroom and the time, alot of people still do. TAFE runs a butchering course for the stations if you want to learn to break down a carcuss

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The unions had a real go at closing down that abbatoir when Hawke and Keating had their socialist Federal government. The unions blockcaded it for over two years and it took High Court injunctions etc to get rid of them. They objected to the abbatoir hiring non-unionised labour. The abbatoir won but I think the millions it cost them may have hurt it.

So now the cattlemen just export the jobs and sell live cattle to Indonesia and the Phillipines. Simple.


PS The average abbatoir worker used to "earn" between $100,000 and $250,000 p.a., work less than 25 hours a week, work only about half the year and go on strike at the drop of the hat.

Now they wonder why most of the abbatoirs have closed in Australia and they ended up on the dole queues.

Nitrox I think you hit the nail on the head with the middle man/business because the farmers don't seem to be making much more.

As to all the education and accreditation, that is just more of the same seatbelt wearing policy writing bullshit we have made a religion in the absence of a harsh lifestyle.

Karl.

Sorry pal , see ya edited out the erras tho..... or was that guilt bought on by BAW and his lovely little poem?

Oh , yeah , there are two "e"'s in leeway.....

OH FOR GODS SAKE! I was just going to bed alright!



And it was a lovely poem



Nitro

Unions have alot to answer for in this country, I look at them as a nessesary evil. We have one in the RAAF. Its called ARFUR or something like that. It has NO power and very few members (mainly officers, go figure)

But mate - you are the Moderator - you are meant to set a shining example to us lessor mortals , and crap spelling doesn't cut the mustard .

Not only that , its a good wind up , and to - cap it all -, we don't often get classy poems here so it has been culturally enriching as well..... No more will I state that there is more culture in a pot of yoghurt than in all Australia - now it will be " there is nearly as much culture in a pot " oh shit , ya get the drift .....

I was doing my groceries this morning and thought i'd lash out on my favorite - a nice leg of lamb.

Yeah - right!

I innocently, (honest), said to the butcher how the price has risen so much and that i'd be better off going to the sale yards and buying a lamb with a broke leg and cuttin it up ourselves.



Think i will have to find a new butcher now.

He was most pissed off with me.

Yes I am the moderator and I have to power to change posts, so carefull Muzza or I'll start adding mistakes to your posts But really when Saeed asked me to be moderator I said to him "But mate I'm not a great speller" He said "Thats alright most of the members can't read!"
Little did he know that a smart ass Kiwi would join the site that actually paid attention in class Must of been those one room schools you guys go to over there, the teachers have more time to spend on the students

I would like to nominate BadAss as Australia's cultural ambassador to the UN. I think he'll shake things up a bit.

Sam
Butchers have no sense of humour.

Saeed is a very astute person - but obviously he had not met any kiwis.....he is correct about most of you not being able to read , I suspect.

You can not nominate BAW for Cultural Attache to the UN - Sir Les Pattison still holds that role , and isnt likely to give up with out a fight, although something that size would make a great moving target with a hunting rifle...

I reckon BAW could take Sir Les!

I thought Sir Les had some standards - admittedly not very high - but anyone who tried to shag Dame Edna Everage has to be a tough old rooster. BAW might have youth on his side ( although what BA would be doing with a youth on his side is not my concern ..) But Sir Les can out-slobber him any day ...

Actually good fish is probably Cheaper than Meat to buy per Kilo..
Thats assuming people actually buy fish rather than catch it themselves..
Catching most of mine on 6 lb line nowadays, gave up on the heavy stuff out at sea and now catch more fish..
Luke in Oz

Fish??? Holy crap, after my bypass last year, I've been told to "eat more fish".

Great -- except about all I can stomach is fish like swordfish, (WA) jewfish, salmon, groper -- most of which are running about $35 -- $40 a kilo here in the west.

I eat lots of tins of tuna in springwater :-(

And sardines in springwater :-(

Skinless chicken breast (second option) is about $10.50 a kilo.

Guess what I eat? Hint: I now have feathers instead of pubic hair!

Bruce

PS: I believe roo and deer are very good for me, too.

If you contract Chickenpox we will all get VERY suspicious

Ha, Hobie, even if I pro-rated my hunting gear costs it is still cheaper. I ALWAYS buy hunting things on sale, as any smart shopper would!

Absolutely. EVERYTHING was bought "on sale".

Ann, I'm too addicted to this to concern myself with sales. In any case, a day in the woods (or garden) beats an hour at the grocery (and especially WallyWorld ).