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We have a very good butcher in the village, his meat must be good ,he eats it himself.

You would be appalled if you knew what goes into some of the food we eat. Worked in a few large food manufacturers and the things they put in their pies would make you puke.Thank god for the village baker.

Hello fellow pom, I live in South Africa and Zebu for your information is an africanised cow, normally typified by large horns, a hump on the shoulder and a speckled skin, the are also known as Nguni cattle. For you information Zebu is grown by the indigineous peoples of Southern Africa and are nornally extremely free range and DO NOT normally have any hormones or other chemicals nasties added, as the farmer cannot afford to inject their cattle, they are immune to most bush diseases like rinderpest, unlike most european cattle. To sell it as british beef ?? were the cattle raised in the UK, what is british beef ??? only a particular breed of cow ?? name one....... the aberdeen angus..... I must admit having eaten it and wasnt particularly impressed. The good thing about free range zebu is the natural marbling of the meat, ask any chef about marbling......... If the zebu was imported and sold as british beef... then that is wrong. Some of the quirks of fate that make your argument fatuous to say the least is curry......indian, pizza...... italian,.....cod and chips, the fish comes from Iceland or off its shores and the potato comes from south america. You should be pleased that you are being exposed to new foods from around the world and not display such a xenophobic attitude......... long live diversity. With regards to you other comments I could not agree more farming has become Agrobusiness and not agriculture and its all about growing something as quickly as possible for the least cost and to knock it out cheep (sic). I agree buy directly from the farmers and put the culture back into agriculture.

Let me put you staight on that,I too watched the programe,they are not selling zebo they are selling beef with zebu d.n.a in it,and yes meat is tastless that you buy from supermarkets that is why I only buy from butchers who sell local farmers meat or go to farmers market asda is the worst for chicken they are batterie hens and forced feed.

I only eat eggs that are free range,chicken free range and I make my own jam and my own sweets home made fudge you can't beat that.

Frightening programme, as you say no wonder more people are getting ill and all these E numbers and additives that are doing people untold harm. It's like a maze though and of course no place like Weatherspoons is going to tell you what meats they are serving up, you could be eating horsemeat for all you know. Chicken is so battery farmed that it is completely tasteless, the problem of course is we are mostly to blame, we want cheap products and should expect to get what we pay for, if you see what i mean.

Zebu Wetherspoons

frozen salted chicken from Brazil , pork from somewhere in Eastern Europa (packed in UK)beef from us/s America /Africa all using growth promoters that are band in UK are all available in caffe /restrants super markets near you try and ask for the tractability of your meat in the s/markets restrants etc you should have no problem with independent butchers.if you see the words "sourced in the UK"ask for country of origin.if you cant get a answer try phoning trading standards,and mention tradsdescription act

Hi Everyone its been a long time.Just want to add for the last 6 years I have not eaten meat of any form & do not intend to ever eat it again.Too much cruelity.

OUR Farmers Market is very expensive,they charge the middle mans cut in profit as well,it will be Farmers that supple the Zebu to the Pubs??????

as soon as it's been through the mincer you never know what you've got Tesco value sausages could be any-thing as to allergies there is not enough dirt in the western diet that is soil

if its not beef they cant say it is, there are less and less good butchers left we should support the few that are left so they dont go forever