Our favourite supermarket likes recycling.

[Karen_D]

"T***o doesn't like to throw away anything. That's why we recycle. That meat can be recycled"

Snippet from bbc article on what they do with food linked to a Whistleblower programme (those of you with tellies and strong stomachs can describe it to me later )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6676345.stm

[catalyst]

if the bbc is reporting this, then it must be well bad.

[Silver Ether]

oh my oh my ... It was horrid ... I am so glad that we dont get a lot of stuff from supermarkets and it looks like it going to get less... Actually thinking about it I dont buy anything fresh from them ... phew neither it would seem does anyone else. Not only as the recyleing of out of date fish and meat that was bad it was the general hygiene ... yakky yak ...and to make it worse ... the staff just went along with it ... they know it was all bad practice ... just didn't care ... they better think twice before eating out themselves in futue ...

[Thurston Garden]

In a previous life I worked in property and had numerous dealings with this supermarket. At one site, the farmer who's field adjoined their car park told me that he had complained on numerous times to the store manager about carrier bags blowing into his field. His sheep were eating them!

The managers attitude was that once they left the store Te**o were no longer responsible for them and if people let them blow away or dropped them in the car park then it was of no concern to him.

I once saved this same store from a significant fine from SEPA when they were caught with raw sewage and cooking fat oozing from their drains. They had never cleaned them out (including the grease interceptors) since the store opened about 8 years previous. Did I get any thanks? No! It took them 9 months to pay my contractors bill which was £**,***!!!

They are not nice people. Do not darken their doorway......

[catalyst]

you are right TG. my son-in-laws family (portuguese) wont buy meat from a supermarket. "you dont know whats in it"

i've made plans with a local organic sheep farmer to get a sheep when she next kills some... and expanding our flock of chicks, so we will be eating our own.

and the whole factory farm to supermarket, cheap meat approach is abysmal. yuk!