depends on the meat, chicken must be free range. Cows and Sheep etc all live in fields anyway so dont pay much attention and focus on quality and price.
Quality/animal welfare/locally sourced/British agri are all part of the same thing.
i buy from a local butcher and avoid anything imported, covers all bases.
2) do they do it in waitrose in town or do i have to go to the but hers in the next village
3) always buy the one that sounds the most hippyish except in the butchers because i just assume their stuff is organic free range and henna tattoed from the field at the end of the high st but tbh I have never asked
Climate change is the big one for me, and that's not covered just by airmiles, more type of meat - Beef and lamb are once a week between them max. After that:
Animal welfare (always organic, promised my hippy daughter)
I don't think that is right Jelly. Carbon is a small factor in convenience, but there is a limit to how far anyone is willing to travel to optimise the other factors.
e.g. I just need a half kilo of mince for a spag bol. Will I travel 20 mins to the high end butcher or pop to the local waitrose (other)?
Agree with the order of the OP. Organic and British has standards and inspection levels that I am familiar with from the family business. The seller is important too. Higher end shops do their own additional inspections and the bar is high to supply meat to them, so you can expect a decent standard of quality and welfare from Waitrose for example that Tesco wouldn't have a clue about.
Best option is a good butcher that still kills on site. It's so much better for welfare, but there isn't a good one locally. There is a good one near my parents that still does this.
We must preserve intergenerational wealth at all costs. How can we progress if we cannot ensure our idiot children can be wealthy without having to work?
1) Source (shop from local farmers and butchers where they given you the life history of the animal. In our village, there is a farmer who sells his calves, and you have the option to name them when you buy them, and see them being raised because they live in the field - somewhat dark - but at least you know where the meat came from).
taste!
price
animal welfare
Quality of the meat
Price
Everything else
Why is price even an issue? Are you all poor?
I would rank roughly as in my OP.
"Quality", to the extent that you can predict it before you buy, is going to be based largely on the provenance and price of the product anyway.
I'd put animal welfare down the list but on the other hand supporting local business and British agriculture is related to animal welfare.
depends on the meat, chicken must be free range. Cows and Sheep etc all live in fields anyway so dont pay much attention and focus on quality and price.
Quality
Animal welfare
Local business
Locally sourced
Convenience
Price (within reason, I am not buying Wagyu every day)
Beef cattle in the UK is mostly grass-fed but that's not the same as free range.
dont all cows live in fields in the summer?
Quality/animal welfare/locally sourced/British agri are all part of the same thing.
i buy from a local butcher and avoid anything imported, covers all bases.
Taste! From Dux's list probably convenience.
Animal welfare
Supporting British agriculture
Supporting local businesses
Convenience
Airmiles
Price
1) what flavour of meat do i want
2) do they do it in waitrose in town or do i have to go to the but hers in the next village
3) always buy the one that sounds the most hippyish except in the butchers because i just assume their stuff is organic free range and henna tattoed from the field at the end of the high st but tbh I have never asked
Climate change is the big one for me, and that's not covered just by airmiles, more type of meat - Beef and lamb are once a week between them max. After that:
Animal welfare (always organic, promised my hippy daughter)
Price
Convenience
Supporting local businesses
Supporting British agriculture
You should ask.
what does convenience mean here? Do you mean mince is eat/chew than lamb chops?
For me it's:
Animal Welfare
Quality of meat
Carbon cost
Cost
The rest don't matter. And carbon cost tends to sort out the local aspects - unless it's someone running a massive chiller to grow penguins in Surrey.
and I've just had tofu for lunch. So there.
How far you have to travel / effort you have to go to, to source the meat
so that falls into carbon cost.
I don't think that is right Jelly. Carbon is a small factor in convenience, but there is a limit to how far anyone is willing to travel to optimise the other factors.
e.g. I just need a half kilo of mince for a spag bol. Will I travel 20 mins to the high end butcher or pop to the local waitrose (other)?
"You should ask"
To quote john mcclaine: "that's what makes you that guy."
ftaod, that guy is a bellend
I would go with the order Ducks has put it in. This however does not include restaurants which would put convenience higher up list.
unusually, what 3 ducks said
Agree with the order of the OP. Organic and British has standards and inspection levels that I am familiar with from the family business. The seller is important too. Higher end shops do their own additional inspections and the bar is high to supply meat to them, so you can expect a decent standard of quality and welfare from Waitrose for example that Tesco wouldn't have a clue about.
Best option is a good butcher that still kills on site. It's so much better for welfare, but there isn't a good one locally. There is a good one near my parents that still does this.
1 - Quality/Taste
2 - Price
3 - everything else not considered
1. meat content
Can't be too careful oop norf eh bento? All thise so-called "puddings"
We must preserve intergenerational wealth at all costs. How can we progress if we cannot ensure our idiot children can be wealthy without having to work?
Does Lydia have a view?
Quality/taste
British
Price
1) Source (shop from local farmers and butchers where they given you the life history of the animal. In our village, there is a farmer who sells his calves, and you have the option to name them when you buy them, and see them being raised because they live in the field - somewhat dark - but at least you know where the meat came from).
2) Quality/Taste
3) Price
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