QVC making a virtue out of necessity!

[Julius]

I understand what you mean, Flamenco, but I personally can't eat the cheap meat. There is something about it that makes me feel ill. The difference in the taste is so noticeable. When I am particularly poor I still use organic stewing steak cubes and bulk it up with lots of beans / lentils / pulses, and vegetables and serve it with a nice granary roll.Is very tasty with some butter (or Flora Buttery in my case) and ground black pepper. I am not sure that meat produced with hormones etc can be healthier than organic. Why would I want to eat animals that have been fed other animals?!! This surely is not right! I will not support this type of husbandry.

There are lots of people who simply cannot afford organic or free-range meat and who have to feed families on a tight weekly budget, so I'm afraid that I don't subscribe to the "it had to be organic/free range or I won't eat it" mantra. At the end of the day, kids have to be fed and there is no scientific evidence that says organic/free range is better for you. But what organic/free range meat does of is make you feel a whole load better about what you eat. Its that warm cozy feeling you get from knowing that your supper came from a happy cow, roaming free in some field somewhere, grazing on lush green pastures before it got turned into the sirloin steak you just had for supper.

That said, I do enjoy organic meat because there is a taste difference, especially with steak. It's hung for longer and the meat is less fatty because the animal has been allowed to fatten up naturally, rather than by being intensively fed and reared. The same can be said for organic chicken. But sadly I cannot afford to pay £10+ for an organic chicken at the moment.

On the subject of Green Seasons/Kings Realm etc, QVC are just ripping customers off, passing off their meat as luxury quality with a matching luxury price tag. It's not organic or free range, so must be intensively farmed meat and is probably no different in taste and texture to the supermarket's bog standard meat. It's probably OK, but the con is in the price and QVC are being rather coy about disclosing exactly what the meat's provenance is. Face it, if QVC said it was the same stuff you can find in the chiller section of the meat aisle of your local supermarket, most punters would think the prices were a rip off and wouldn't buy it, would they?

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Growth hormones have been banned in the UK for years. As are animal feeds containing "animals". Buy organic by all means but the days of animals pumped full of hormones are long gone.

Flamenco ... good point. I do buy quality meat but am as happy with the "cheaper" cuts like shin or liver. Cooked to perfection, shin makes the best braised beef ever. I bought 2 kilos of shin a couple of weeks ago for about £5. Delish!

 

[janie]

:sad: are they so young:mysmilie_466: :mysmilie_477: I wish I was a vegetarian :mysmilie_476:

one of the reasons i am :wink:

 

[PrussianRed]

I really can't believe the price for the turkey!!!!!!

In the past I have bought free-range Bronze turkeys from the local butcher. The farm they come from is 5 miles away. The birds are top-notch quality, they are dry plucked (not dropped in boiling water to remove feathers) and are hung for 10 days. They are pricey, but the QVC bird is £13 per kg, and it is not specified as any of the above!!

I can honestly say that the turkeys I've had have been fantastic quality and I didn't begrudge the expense (think I paid about £50 for 4kg) , but no way would I pay £65 for a bird with no 'provenance' :down:

 

[Julius]

I like the Asda organics rump steak. I think it's only about £10 a kilo and is very tasty.