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IRELAND IS TO become the first country in the world to carry out a national LGBT youth strategy.
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Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone is today launching the online questionnaire for the strategy at Facebook headquarters in Dublin.
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Young members of the LGBT community are encouraged to attend roadshows in Sligo, Dundalk, Waterford, Galway and Cork in the coming months.
The programme plans to consult young people between the age of 15-24 about all aspects of their lives so as to provide key recommendations in certain policy areas.
“Today we invite young people across Ireland to be part of history. Through Facebook Live and an online consultation with Spunout.ie they will help form the world’s first LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy,” said the minister.
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No Tesco won’t put price up of beef because that would be too obvious, instead they will increase the price of everything else. They are so sly and think we are all stupid and don’t notice but most do notice and just shop elsewhere…..
Yep, Tesco will rob us in any way they can.
They should be forced to publish accounts for Irish stores. We are being screwed by them for groceries.
No real competition, they all just price match not compete.
You have to have your wits about you shopping in tesco , they have a price over a item like say 1 50 for a pizza and you get closer thinking its a good deal and its 1 50 off in very small letters and its so called reduce price is 3 euro which is no great shakes ,and don’t get me started on super value , aldi all the day
It was the large multiples that demanded the continual cut to beef prices, Tesco led the charge and now they are crying foul. Irish beef producers (farmers) are among the most closely monitored in the world and they are the ones who will suffer if this problem continues to focus on Irish beef. Tesco DO NOT CARE where their beef comes from just so long as its cheap. The mathematics of the 10c burger never stacked up an Tesco where well aware of the filler used to drive down cost but they where still happy to call this junk meat 100% beef. Sorry Tesco but you are liars.
‘ CHIEF EXECUTIVE of supermarket chain Tesco has commented on the current horsemeat scandal, saying that the company will bring in new tests that won’t cost the customer more.’
Hey Supermarkets, heres my changes.
1) Never eat processed meat, especially from a SM.
2)Always use my local butcher and have him mince meat infront of me.
3) Try avoid All processed food.
True. So true. You don’t save by buying cheap burgers, you just fool yourself and your kids that you’re eating beef. I wouldnt be surprised if there was more meat in those horse burgers than comparable “beef” burgers.
Now I know why my father was able to buy a new corolla in 1990 from the sale of 7 cull cows because their was no horse meat to be had in the food chain. Today I would bave to sell 28 cull cows to buy a new corolla car. Why you may ask because we all now know the reason the factories would not pay the correct price for the product because the supermarkets and the factories were buying horsemeat at €1000 / ton cow beef is €4000/ton. hense why the farmer was been squeezed all the time while the other two industries were maintaining their profits. Now we all know how they could sell meat products at major discount.
What is going to happen now is the price of cull cows at the mart will raise because their is at least a 25% vacuum to fill the supermarket’s can’t raise their price because tbey are now sell a 100% beef products
I’m sorry, this is just not stacking up for me. Are you telling me that there are more horses in the fields than there are cows? Also, please explain how it would be more economically viable for an Irish farmer to raise horses rather than cows. Are they cheaper to raise for slaughter? What is the viable meat yield per tonne of live animal? Is it more with horses?
@ ian … the horsemeat market excludes Ireland and Britain ..60 million consumers !
Horses are generally owned by people who don’t own land …many of them don’t own the house they are living in…therefore any thing they get for a horse tax -free is a bonus ! …no accounts …no bank accounts ! no tax !
…many people who own horses are not now able to afford to keep them because those who supply livery do so at a far more expensive rate than it is to keep a cow … there are also tax breaks with stallions and stud farms not enjoyed by the farmers who sell Beef! those who cannot afford to keep a horse usually had or have a job and the horse was a good idea before the crash …now they are selling them at a discount or in some cases giving them away for free ! …
Don’t bother Mr Clarke.
The Irish people could be unknowingly eating Horse S**t an our government wouldn’t care.
In fact the Irish government have fed the Irish people on Horse S**t for decades.
Agreed, but better label and supply chain transparency would not have prevented the type of fraud that was committed in this case. A swift prosecution of the crooks that contaminated the food chain and hefty fines would discourage future occurrences.
It’s thanks to a subsidiary of Irish govt that this whole European scandal came to light., actually. Because our food standards are higher than most countries we tested for something that no other govt tested for and while govt response here could have been better we irish deserve a pat on the back for exposing this. Biggest blame in my opinion lies with the supermarkets like tesco who claim to be innocent victims but in fact helped cause the problem by squeezing their suppliers too hard on price
What a load of spin from Tesco. The fact is they were instrumental in bringing the horsemeat scandal about – by cutting prices to suppliers to rock bottom levels some suppliers then cut corners by using the cheaper horsemeat. Personally, I will never buy meat of any description from Tesco ever again.
One of the reasons the beef scandal happened is the pressure that tesco and all the other supermarkets put on their suppliers to produce food at ever cheaper prices. Tesco and the like, screw suppliers big time . When you see discounts and two for one offers the shops aren’t themselves taking the hit, it’s the farmers and producers. The beef crises was inevitable really: we need to go back to local butchers, co-ops etc. there is a reason cheap food is cheap . If you must have burgers make your own it’s not hard to do.
Never shop in tesco’s. it’s too expensive. Aldi, my local butchers and occasionally dunnes for extra’s. Can’t understand how anyone with a family could afford to shop in tesco’s every week but I know plenty that do.
Prices have been squeezed so much by big retailers that U am not in the least surprised by the horse scandal. Burgers for eleven cents had to be dodgy. Lasagne for a euro had to be dodgy. Does not however excuse fraud. People should be jailed.
Tesco and other multiples are a factor on the scandal. They force suppliers to provide products at unrealistic prices and this leads to the type of scam involving horse meat. Tesco, Dunnes, Aldi etc need to provide a proper structure for the buying and sourcing of food products. They need to pay a fair price that they give to producers. They make millions of profit in Ireland.
Here’s one change TESCO ; PUBLISH YOUR ACCOUNTS AND LET US SEE HOW MUCH OF THE MONEY THAT OUR GOVERNMENTS ARE PREPARED TO BORROW YOU STUFF DOWN YOUR POCKETS …. AND THEN WE CAN SEE IF YOU HAVE PAID ENOUGH TAX ! Like the rest of us …… any comment on the reports that for every job created by a multinational supermarket 9 jobs are lost in the local economy …..
No?…….. didn’t think so !
bord bia approved products all the way for this family. Beef containing horsemeat and chickens imported from holland or thailand loaded with antibiotics is in no way appealing. If nothing else comes from this fiasco, I for one will be making a conscious effort to buy locally and go the extra step for healthier traceable food for our kitchen table.
Bord bia ??? ….. I don’t know which is a bigger joke bord bia or the I.F.A. ………….
Bord Bia come out to a farmers farm and Check to see if they have a medicene cabinet and have a look around the farm ..check your paperwork…that’s it ………and then you are Bord Bia approved and you get one euro per lamb more than you would get if you ….actually you get no more than if you bargained …. I refused to let them inside my gate …and I feed my meat to my children so I know it’s 100% …. Bord Bia ? …. I’d sooner ring Anglo for shares TOMORROW!..
.THE FARMERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM ..THE PROBLEM WAS POINTED OUT YEARS AGO DURING A LATE NIGHT SITTING OF THE DAIL AND THE GLOVE ON THE HAND HAS BEEN POINTED OUT BY FARMERS FOR YEARS ….YOU DON’T LISTEN AND NOW WE DON’T CARE !
Hopefully the increase in popularity with butchers meat will increase competition in effect lowering prices and contributing to our economy, local all the way! But it isn’t just imported meat we should look at, the importation of coffee beans and coco beans to make chocolate have far more controversy with pest infestation, slave labour and forest destruction even fare trade has its controversy.
many local butchers have stopped killing their own meat ……….. they just buy it cheaper of the Meat processors …. or of importers ….. at least they buy it in carcass form …..don’t buy mince though …unless you see the beef being minced in front of your eyes !
Lidl Aldi and Tesco employ don’t to employ many Irish staff and the profits they make go to owners and shareholders in UK and Germany so I shop at my local butchers and Irish owns chains
Actually Susanna I have to disagree slightly with you there. The majority of the staff in my local Aldi are Irish and they do a lot of work with St Vincent de Paul and other Irish charities.
Ill never buy meat in tescos again … I don’t hear anything about Aldi in the news as I think they hold them selves to a higher standard in production! I buy all my meet from the local butcher but Aldi is next in line
Part of the new tests being introduced, is an Animal recognition course, all of the Tesco’s workers involved in sourcing meat will be brought to kids corner in Dublin zoo, there they will be shown farm animals, common animals such as piggys moo cows and sheep that should make an apperance on your plate when you order meat. Then they will jump on a courtesy bus at no expence to the Tesco shopper i might add and be whisked away to Fairy house and shown animals that should not appear on your plate……
I understand that the main point of everyone being so angry about this is because many stores lied about their “100% beef products”. However, if you go to places such as Lanzarote, they don’t have the terrain or money to import beef. So what do you think you’re eating when you order a cheeseburger? Horse meat. Does this mean Canary Island restaurants should be closed because they don’t say beef burger or ham burger, it’s mostly just cheeseburger, with no fine print saying this is horse meat. I admit there is a difference between beef and horse but food is food, however neanderthal that sounds!
Tesco should be ashamed of themselves. Come on, are we totally stupid, or do Tesco think we’re stupid. They have led the need for cheap meat – hence why horses were used because they couldn’t squeeze the farmers quick enough for super cheap unsustainable beef.
Everybody, just go to your local butcher. That’s the proper stuff. Not that minced up crap.
Tesco should be ashamed of themselves. Come on, are we totally stupid, or do Tesco think we’re stupid. They have led the need for cheap meat – hence why horses were used because they couldn’t squeeze the farmers quick enough for super cheap unsustainable beef.
Tesco should be ashamed of themselves. Come on, are we totally stupid, or do Tesco think we’re stupid. They have led the need for cheap meat – hence why horses were used because they couldn’t squeeze the farmers quick enough.
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