Thread: The price of meat these days is a joke.

And every weeks 100 s if not thousands of deer get culled and are left to rot in the hills while we have struggling families trying have the ends meat.

Originally Posted by Friwi

And every weeks 100 s if not thousands of deer get culled and are left to rot in the hills while we have struggling families trying have the ends meat.

And to much red tape to do anything about it

A big part of the problem is people just accept the outrageous prices supermarkets charge.
Too many places work on "what the market will bear"
They'll just keep jacking the price up till people stop buying it.
We know the producers get sweet f/a so don't buy if you think it's overpriced. Let the retailers deal with the stuff when it spoils.

Meat at the supermarket is about the only thing that hasnt gone up massively, Ie eggs, fruit, veges.
Even beer has less fizz in it !

Originally Posted by MarkN

Posted here as it's not funny enough for the jokes thread.

The price of meat these days is a joke.

The argument, that Britons (for example) pay $x.00/Kg in London, so why shouldn't we be charged, the same price here - fails as follows:

The price in London includes transporting the meat, 18,327 kilometres from Auckland (for example, could be Tauranga etc).

So if I am paying the same $x.00/Kg price as they do in London, then I want my meat, to be transported 9,163.5 Km and back again, before I buy it and I'd like to have proof that such has happened.

Logically the meat in NZ, should be London Price $x.00/Kg minus the cost of transporting meat 18,327 kilometres.
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And why can't I buy mutton? All the lamb legs in the supermarket are huge, I think they are Hogget labelled as Lamb, but where are the Mutton Packs?

Also the butchery process, now seems to include half a pelvis when you buy a lamb leg, or a pork leg roast.

Best to buy cancelled export orders, or shrink wrapped meat with export markings on it. They wouldn't try selling pelvis to the export market.

I'm serious about the pelvis, I boned out a large lamb leg I bought and cooked and compared it to skeleton illustration of a sheep. Clearly part of the pelvis was attached to the leg.

I emailed a marketing wallah at PaknSave, with photo and illustration and he wasn't having any of it. Nor could he answer the question of the missing mutton.
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You can't get mutton as its all exported the Asians can't get enough of and the prices they were paying you wouldn't want to pay that much.
The lamb looks like hogget as the price the works are paying us is so shit the lamb has to be huge to brake even.
21 kg lamb carcass $153 killed yesterday


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boer goat...any goat is like lamb to me....bugger all fat and bugger all taste...in a good way.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

boer goat...any goat is like lamb to me....bugger all fat and bugger all taste...in a good way.

Just leave the stinky old bucks for pet food

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

boer goat...any goat is like lamb to me....bugger all fat and bugger all taste...in a good way.

Ha... You will need another cook for your plates. Goat has stronger flavor, I like it but for some people they enjoy whatever goat or lumb with no flavor at all. I cooked wild goats several times, it was very nice but the key is how to cook them otherwise it will have those gamey smell or strong flavor even me can `t enjoy it.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

Ha... You will need another cook for your plates. Goat has stronger flavor, I like it but for some people they enjoy whatever goat or lumb with no flavor at all. I cooked wild goats several times, it was very nice but the key is how to cook them otherwise it will have those gamey smell or strong flavor even me can `t enjoy it.

BILLY GOAT who has been rooting,has strong flavour......nanny or young non sexually active goat does not..... pretty much same with all species when it comes to it.

pitt island sheep and arapawa island sheep are the same saxton merinos of old... dropped onto wee offshore islands incase of shipwrecked sailors in need of a feed.....they taste great,smaller body but sweeter meat.

yip you can buy an animal but are supposed to own it for 30 days before being able to kill it...supposedly to stop you buying stock ,taking home on trailer and killing it on the way...which is eggzachary what a freezing works does.
now I do wonder if you can do a safari park hunt..pay to hunt and take home the killed animal...no different to a management hunt on any of the stations or game farms,but hunt a sheep/cow/goat??? I mean whats the difference between paying Gary Rooney for an arapawa sheep in stew point and the neighbour for a merino or crossbred???? nothing.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yip you can buy an animal but are supposed to own it for 30 days before being able to kill it...supposedly to stop you buying stock ,taking home on trailer and killing it on the way...which is eggzachary what a freezing works does.
now I do wonder if you can do a safari park hunt..pay to hunt and take home the killed animal...no different to a management hunt on any of the stations or game farms,but hunt a sheep/cow/goat??? I mean whats the difference between paying Gary Rooney for an arapawa sheep in stew point and the neighbour for a merino or crossbred???? nothing.

The idea is not about hunting but a possible business model that can both satisfy the idea of this buzz word of "sustainability" and actually can bring some benefits to people `s table, some extra meats. Yeah, I can do safari park hunt, the two thumb range is my favorite.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yip you can buy an animal but are supposed to own it for 30 days before being able to kill it...supposedly to stop you buying stock ,taking home on trailer and killing it on the way...which is eggzachary what a freezing works does.
now lI do wonder if you can do a safari park hunt..pay to hunt and take home the killed animal...no different to a management hunt on any of the stations or game farms,but hunt a sheep/cow/goat??? I mean whats the difference between paying Gary Rooney for an arapawa sheep in stew point and the neighbour for a merino or crossbred???? nothing.

I'd be keen on doing a hunt like that every year or so, especially with a tractor to lift/load the carcass

you missed point......
you are allowed to buy an oppertunity to shoot an animal,shoot it and take home to eat...but not allowed to buy an animal shoot it and take it home

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you missed point......
you are allowed to buy an oppertunity to shoot an animal,shoot it and take home to eat...but not allowed to buy an animal shoot it and take it home

right... Thanks for the tips. Anyway, what I said before was just a thought but it was a feasible idea. Ya...I can `t do this right now anyway....so any tips about rabbits hunting opportunities in Canterbury?