For those who voted Labor

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13661633/Why-photo-groceries-left-Coles-shopper-furious-absolute-joke.html

23 July 2024

Why this photo of groceries left a Coles shopper furious: 'It's an absolute joke'

    Shoppers called the price of groceries a 'joke'
    Social media users outraged over cost of 'essentials'

A Coles shopper has shown just how little you get when spending close to $100 at the supermarket due to untamed inflation.

The customer shared a photo on X showing just 14 items purchased from their local supermarket on Sunday, with another photo of the receipt showing that cost $97.28.

'It's not easy under Albanese's cost of living crisis,' the caption read.

'Today I bought some basics: salt, rinse aid, dishwasher detergent, toilet cleaner, milk, carrots, raspberries, chicken, rump steak, stewing beef, lamb shanks, pork, and three potatoes. What do you think it cost?'

'Food is up about 25 per cent Albanese came to power, electricity is about 30 per cent, gas is incalculable, insurance is up,' they wrote.

'Albanese's inflation is eating you alive. Are your wages keeping up?'

Many social media users shared their fury about the sky-high prices, while others suggested not shopping at Coles but using a cheaper alternative.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/23/06/87650555-13661633-the_customer_shared_a_photo_of_their_receipt_revealing_that_thei-a-17_1721711339568.jpg

Imagine trying to feed say a family with a wife and 4 kids on the minimum wage?  :o

How would you pay the rent or mortgage and all the other bills?

That's a lot of meat. You can get rump for less than half that price.

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 6:28am:

That's a lot of meat. You can get rump for less than half that price.

The rump was $15.00 for 500 gram so that's $30 per kilo.
That's quite cheap for Coles prices.

Can you really buy rump steak for $15 per kilo?

I saw it for 12 recently. For a whole rump. I'm pretty sure a lot of butchers have it at around that price. I think the price has gone down again recently. Maybe because it is drying out after a wet summer.

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:02am:

I saw it for 12 recently. For a whole rump. I'm pretty sure a lot of butchers have it at around that price. I think the price has gone down again recently. Maybe because it is drying out after a wet summer.

Wow - remember when eye fillet was $69.70 per kilo last August at Coles?


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I don't really pay much attention to the price of steak in Coles Bobby. Anyone who actually buys it there does not care about the price.

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Get this and cut few stakes and what left use for quick fry or beef stroganoff or mince.

BTW
Quote:

Product price disclaimer Product price is displayed based on location information. Prices may vary between Coles stores and online – confirm the location you have selected is correct for price and range information near you.

freediver wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:24am:

I don't really pay much attention to the price of steak in Coles Bobby. Anyone who actually buys it there does not care about the price.

What about an impulse buy -
you see and you have to have it?

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Wow - Gordy knows where to buy his meat.   

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 2:31pm:

Wow - Gordy knows where to buy his meat.

Notice how the standard price is still cheaper than Coles?
I buy very little food from coles, just a few bits and pieces.

we've only just begun to see the inflationary pricing of meat.

wait until the latest green legislation is passed .

then you will really be living on rolled oats  ;D ;D ;D

good looking rumps there gordo

Bobby. wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2024 at 11:56pm:

Imagine trying to feed say a family with a wife and 4 kids on the minimum wage?  :o How would you pay the rent or mortgage and all the other bills?

I do okay. And I happen to be living about $100 to $200 a week higher than the poverty level.

I often buy a chunk and slice it up myself.  Get a big one and some steaks and some slices for Chinese etc.

The cow spends its whole life terrified of the abbatoir only to be eaten by the supermarket crowd.  They know, you know.... I am very conflicted about eating meat these days....

Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/

aquascoot wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 3:47pm:

good looking rumps there gordo

I like rump, even when it's a bit tough the flavour is great. I cook it with the fat cap on :)

Gordon wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 6:53pm:

aquascoot wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 3:47pm: good looking rumps there gordo I like rump, even when it's a bit tough the flavour is great. I cook it with the fat cap on :)

Gordon has a head for fat.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 5:07pm:

Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/

Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:17pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced.

Price gouging.
They were selling lamb for top prices last year and
the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:46pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging.

That's their business model, Bobby.

They're primarily in business to make money, not provide people with cheap food.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 8:28pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:46pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. That's their business model, Bobby. They're primarily in business to make money, not provide people with cheap food.

That's why they are in danger of being broken up into smaller companies -
they got too big for their boots.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 8:37pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 8:28pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:46pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. That's their business model, Bobby. They're primarily in business to make money, not provide people with cheap food. That's why they are in danger of being broken up into smaller companies - they got too big for their boots.

Having lived in a regional area and having known farmers myself, I know that the farmers make okay to pretty good money. The bad deal they get is when they have to endure years where there is flooding rain, or years of drought. The supermarkets are giving the farmers a deal to which the farmers have agreed. Realistically, the farmers should be seeking a better deal, once their contracts are ended with the current agreeements.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:46pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep.

Dick.... head. You know that is not true.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 5:06am:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:46pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep. Dick.... head. You know that is not true.

So you're calling me a liar?

Apologise.


https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj

Sep 25, 2023

Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market


In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria. Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head.

It's a new trend ...

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 7:43am:

It's a new trend ...

Nothing worse than an overdone steak which is as tough as leather.   :)

So don't eat meat.

Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 6:00am:

So you're calling me a liar? Apologise. https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj Sep 25, 2023 Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria. Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head.

I will let you earn your potential apology from me if you can post up the rest of that article, and explain the relevance of the 2023's financial year compared to the 2024's financial year. Has nothing changed in the 12 months?

mothra wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:55am:

So don't eat meat. Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round.

Here goes environment  :(
the convenience of a primarily plant-based diet has come at an embarrassing cost. Put simply; there's a lot more flatulence than usual.



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Dr Sandro Demaio, the chief executive of VicHealth, says an increase in farting when you go veggo or vegan is "very normal".

mothra wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:55am:

So don't eat meat. Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round.

Remember, Bobby cannot help but have the urge to get some steak in his mouth every now and then.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 6:00am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 5:06am: Bobby. wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:46pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep. Dick.... head. You know that is not true. So you're calling me a liar? Apologise. https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj Sep 25, 2023 Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria. Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 11:05am:

I will let you earn your potential apology from me if you can post up the rest of that article, and explain the relevance of the 2023's financial year compared to the 2024's financial year. Has nothing changed in the 12 months?

UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character.

He knows he's wrong but won't apologise.

This seems to be a copy of the afr article:

https://www.vikingfoodsolutions.com.au/industry-update/flock-fallout-plummeting-lamb-prices-in-australia/

Flock Fallout: Plummeting Lamb Prices in Australia

Australia is facing a mighty hurdle as it prepares for a 23% surge in its sheep population, a direct fallout from the harsh 2020 drought. This surge has resulted in a surplus, triggering a significant drop in sheep prices.

The looming threat of scorching weather has set farmers on a frenzied dash to hasten the sale of their livestock. Projections paint a picture of the nation’s total sheep flock reaching a staggering 78.8 million in 2023 – a figure not witnessed since 2007 – all thanks to three consecutive years of rainfall that’s been better than the norm.

The demand for exports has taken a hit, and the breakdown of farmer-to-farmer trade has covered the market with sheep, creating a delicate supply-demand imbalance. According to data from Meat & Livestock Australia, cattle prices have taken a nosedive of almost 50%, while sheep prices are experiencing a substantial 37% decline.

In Western Australia, the predicament is further compounded by the government’s call to halt sheep shipments to the Middle East – a trade of significant importance for a state with less local lamb demand compared to regions like New South Wales or Victoria.
The impact is acutely felt by Western Australian producers,
grappling with prices dropping to as low as $1 or $2 per head.

Adding to the challenges is the prolonged discussion about an impending El Niño, which is expected to bring drier conditions, exacerbating the persistent effects of the recent drought. East coast farmers are actively working to reduce their stock numbers in a market currently facing difficulties.

Cattle prices are witnessing a downturn for similar reasons, and critical export markets with weakening economies are grappling with the task of absorbing surplus meat inventories. The outlook remains uncertain as stakeholders navigate through these complex dynamics.

In summary, Australia confronts a pivotal moment in its agricultural narrative, contending with the aftermath of the 2020 drought and an unprecedented surge in sheep numbers. This surplus has led to a marked drop in sheep prices, intensified by weakened export demand and disrupted farmer-to-farmer trade. The impact is profound in Western Australia, exacerbated by the cessation of sheep shipments to the Middle East.

As discussions about an impending El Niño persist, farmers, particularly on the east coast, adapt strategies in a market riddled with uncertainties. With cattle prices also in decline and export markets grappling with surplus meat amid economic challenges, stakeholders face an uncertain future, demanding resilience and adaptability.

Good - the article was saved in the web archive site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231028133334/https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj

Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market


Brad Thompson   Reporter

Sep 25, 2023 – 7.43am

A projected 23 per cent increase in Australia’s sheep flock since the last drought in 2020 has created a glut that has sent prices into free fall, as farmers scramble to sell before hot weather hits this summer.

Australia’s total sheep flock and breeding ewe numbers are forecast to hit 78.8 million in 2023, the highest level since 2007, after three straight years of above-average rainfall, according to a July update from Meat & Livestock Australia.

Hit by weak export demand and the collapse of farmer-to-farmer trade – when farmers sell sheep to each other – producers who built up flocks during three rainy years are sending them to market in droves as they face the prospect of hotter and drier weather conditions. Meat & Livestock Australia data shows cattle prices broadly down almost 50 per cent on last year and sheep prices down 37 per cent.

Woodanilling sheep producer Bindi Murray fears for the future of the industry in WA. Trevor Collens

In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria.
Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head.

The situation for WA livestock producers is a far cry from 2020 when, at the end of the east coast drought, they cashed in on high prices being paid by farmers on the other side of the country looking to restock. Almost 2 million sheep were trucked out of WA in 2020, along with big numbers of cattle, as east coast producers bred up on the back of rain.

But with talk for months about an El Nino weather pattern bringing drier conditions, and scars from the last drought barely healed, many east coast farmers have been racing to get bulging stock numbers down in a weak market. Cattle prices have plunged for similar reasons, and key export markets with weakening economies have been slow to chew through a build up in meat inventories.

Bindi Murray, a farmer in Woodanilling, WA, isn’t at the point of destroying animals but is struggling with much lower livestock prices.

“I’ve got some sheep here that I could have sold as lambs and was offered $130 a head. I sold some of them a year ago for $75 and then got quoted $40 a head for them. They’re the same sheep, just a different time. It just shows the magnitude of the price collapse over the past 12-18 months,” she said.

Ms Murray is worried that farmers who missed out on rain this year will have to destroy sheep that don’t measure up to the specifications of local meat processors and are unwanted by other farmers. “People are now making those hard decisions on farms rather than pushing the problem down the supply chain,” she said.

She worries that the WA sheep industry is in danger of losing critical mass and that will have a knock-on effect on rural communities and jobs along the supply chain. She said it was heartbreaking and morale-sapping to see lamb prices collapse after a period of high prices and strong demand.

In normal circumstances there would be grazier-to-grazier trade in sheep unwanted by meatworks, but that had completely dried up.

“That trade is just not there because there’s not the confidence for people to take extra sheep on at the moment,” Ms Murray said. “The position in WA with our Mediterranean climate is when the season goes against you, you need to reduce your stock numbers to look after the paddocks and prevent any environmental issues or animal welfare issues.

“You’ve just got a de-stock and that’s the tricky bit for the guys who have got into that position.”

Ms Murray is a Sheep Producers Australia board member and took part in a WA delegation that visited Canberra this month to fight for the live trade with the Middle East.

She said the live trade, facing the axe after lobbying by animal welfare groups, was essential to robust pricing in WA and a phase-out could be “catastrophic” for some farming families and communities.

“We don’t have that big domestic demand base of the east coast and that’s part of why live export plays a really important role. It gives us diversity of demand and more robust pricing,” she said.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:18pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 6:00am: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 5:06am: Bobby. wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:46pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 5:07pm: Nothing on that docket seems to be outrageously overpriced   :-/ Maybe a "mild annoyance" overpriced. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep. Dick.... head. You know that is not true. So you're calling me a liar? Apologise. https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj Sep 25, 2023 Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria. Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head. UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 11:05am: I will let you earn your potential apology from me if you can post up the rest of that article, and explain the relevance of the 2023's financial year compared to the 2024's financial year. Has nothing changed in the 12 months? UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise.

Wow, just look at that last line from TVI™!

He owes me at least one sincere apology but cannot bring himself to make it. He is in no position to call others out for not apologising! What a scumbag!

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:55pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. Wow, just look at that last line from TVI™! He owes me at least one sincere apology but cannot bring himself to make it. He is in no position to call others out for not apologising! What a scumbag!

Monk,
you are teaching other posters here not to apologise when they are caught out calling me a liar.
You do it all the time you ASPD affected mental case.

Just saw whole rumps for $9 per kg at IGA.

freediver wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 1:52pm:

Just saw whole rumps for $9 per kg at IGA.

I hope you bought a heap of them and put most in the freezer?   :)

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 1:57pm:

freediver wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 1:52pm: Just saw whole rumps for $9 per kg at IGA. I hope you bought a heap of them and put most in the freezer?   :)

No. Maybe later.

freediver wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 1:58pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 1:57pm: freediver wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 1:52pm: Just saw whole rumps for $9 per kg at IGA. I hope you bought a heap of them and put most in the freezer?   :) No. Maybe later.

yes - actually - test one out first to make sure it's tender.    ;)

Cost of beef at Coles today - 25th July 2024 -
a new record price for Eye Fillet beef $72.73 per kilo.
Beef rump is $26.09 per kilo.



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Bobby. wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:17am:

freediver wrote on Jul 24th, 2024 at 7:02am: I saw it for 12 recently. For a whole rump. I'm pretty sure a lot of butchers have it at around that price. I think the price has gone down again recently. Maybe because it is drying out after a wet summer. Wow - remember when eye fillet was $69.70 per kilo last August at Coles?

Who could forget that $100.00 plus leg of lamb we'd be forced to pay,
after the Gillard Government introduced a carbon trading system



https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/02/barnaby-joyce-sayings-catchphrases-renewable-energy



It turned out to be just a drunken Barnaby Joyce rant, while lying in a gutter, somewhere



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH9vhxrdAao




.

Dear Buzz,

forget about drunken Barnaby -

would you pay $72.73 per kilo for a piece of eye fillet?

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:18pm:

UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise.

I will consider that a threat. And I will consider that you have the obligation of apologising.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:40pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. I will consider that a threat. And I will consider that you have the obligation of apologising.

Price gouging.
They were selling lamb for top prices last year and
the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep.

Cost of beef at Coles today - 25th July 2024 -
a new record price for Eye Fillet beef $72.73 per kilo.
Beef rump is $26.09 per kilo.
I bought the piece of rump - it will make a nice mild curry.   :)



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For the record... I have no vested in interest in high prices to lamb. Our menu at the restaurant does a selection of lamb items. However, our supervisor and our franchisee have both expressed that we only buy lamb items when the prices of the lamb is low. However, $1 for a whole lamb is way too cheap for our franchise. It is an insult to our local primary industry to buy a sheep meat for that little.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:42pm:

Cost of beef at Coles today - 25th July 2024 - a new record price for Eye Fillet beef $72.73 per kilo. Beef rump is $26.09 per kilo. I bought the piece of rump - it will make a nice mild curry.   :) https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/848/original/021fa3b7d1931e55.jpg https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/850/original/685a790919ddfb1e.jpg

I paid $21.99 per Kg for eye fillet just over a week ago at Harris Farm Markets.

Gordon posted their special on Rump they had Tassal smoked salmon $3.99 100 grams it's usually $10-11 for exact same thing at Coles and Woolies.

If you don't like the prices at Coles don't buy it there.

mothra wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:55am:

So don't eat meat. Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round.

True! If only people ate less meat… rather it’s going the opposite direction.
And the Amazon is destroyed more and more for cows and so forth.

I confess I don’t mind a bbq once a year… and I hardly buy red meat otherwise. Maybe once every 3-4 months. And not just any crap the big supermarkets put on their refrigerated shelves to sell…
How many actually look at where the meat comes from… is it grass fed etc?
Cape Grim is a good place to start looking.
Also I pay premium for free range anything.
I can’t believe that caged chook eggs are still allowable … it’s been known for yonks how bad it is for those caged chooks to produce caged eggs. Yes I heard in a few years it’s being phased out. Too slow.
Even free range only have 1 metre of space around them, at least it’s not as cruel as being caged.

If anyone has Netflix…. Watch “You are what you eat”
It’s 4 episodes, with an experiment with a number of identical twins.
One has to go vegetarian, the other has to go on a meat diet.

The results in many ways, are astounding!

Sophia wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 11:30pm:

How many actually look at where the meat comes from… is it grass fed etc? Also I pay premium for free range anything.

I avoid grain fed beef it's marbled with fat grazing beef is much leaner. That said the Japanese like grain fed for this reason with export beef.

I only buy free range chicken it tastes much better.

Hormone and antibiotic free is something else i look for.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 11:25pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:42pm: Cost of beef at Coles today - 25th July 2024 - a new record price for Eye Fillet beef $72.73 per kilo. Beef rump is $26.09 per kilo. I bought the piece of rump - it will make a nice mild curry.   :) https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/848/original/021fa3b7d1931e55.jpg https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/850/original/685a790919ddfb1e.jpg I paid $21.99 per Kg for eye fillet just over a week ago at Harris Farm Markets. Gordon posted their special on Rump they had Tassal smoked salmon $3.99 100 grams it's usually $10-11 for exact same thing at Coles and Woolies. If you don't like the prices at Coles don't buy it there.

That's a good price.


https://www.coles.com.au/product/cleaver's-organic-grass-fed-beef-eye-fillet-steak-240g-6765190


Coles online

Cleaver's Organic Grass-Fed Beef Eye Fillet Steak | 240g

$18.00

$75.00 per 1kg

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 11:40pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 11:25pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:42pm: Cost of beef at Coles today - 25th July 2024 - a new record price for Eye Fillet beef $72.73 per kilo. Beef rump is $26.09 per kilo. I bought the piece of rump - it will make a nice mild curry.   :) https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/848/original/021fa3b7d1931e55.jpg https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/164/101/850/original/685a790919ddfb1e.jpg I paid $21.99 per Kg for eye fillet just over a week ago at Harris Farm Markets. Gordon posted their special on Rump they had Tassal smoked salmon $3.99 100 grams it's usually $10-11 for exact same thing at Coles and Woolies. If you don't like the prices at Coles don't buy it there. That's a good price. https://www.coles.com.au/product/cleaver's-organic-grass-fed-beef-eye-fillet-steak-240g-6765190 Coles online Cleaver's Organic Grass-Fed Beef Eye Fillet Steak | 240g $18.00 $75.00 per 1kg

Gordon says it was $19.99 a Kg for eye fillet at Harris Farm a couple of days after i bought over 4kg.

I don't support shops that rip people off i support those who give good prices.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 11:51pm:

Gordon says it was $19.99 a Kg for eye fillet at Harris Farm a couple of days after i bought over 4kg. I don't support shops that rip people off i support those who give good prices.

We don't have Harris Farm in Melbourne:

https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/pages/our-stores

Bobby. wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 12:00am:

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 11:51pm: Gordon says it was $19.99 a Kg for eye fillet at Harris Farm a couple of days after i bought over 4kg. I don't support shops that rip people off i support those who give good prices. We don't have Harris Farm in Melbourne: https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/pages/our-stores

They're expanding one day you might get one.

One of the few places that sell this
https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/nippy-s-blood-orange-juice-64256

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 12:11am:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 26th, 2024 at 12:00am: Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 11:51pm: Gordon says it was $19.99 a Kg for eye fillet at Harris Farm a couple of days after i bought over 4kg. I don't support shops that rip people off i support those who give good prices. We don't have Harris Farm in Melbourne: https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/pages/our-stores They're expanding one day you might get one. One of the few places that sell this https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/nippy-s-blood-orange-juice-64256

I'd like to try that.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:55pm:

Wow, just look at that last line from TVI™! He owes me at least one sincere apology but cannot bring himself to make it. He is in no position to call others out for not apologising! What a scumbag!

I mean, without even doing any research, you would know that farmers would not sell their sheep for $1. Then, Bobby had the cheek to post up a link to an article that I could not read all of, because I would have to subscribe. So, I asked him to post up the full article. He has chickened out.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 5:09am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:55pm: Wow, just look at that last line from TVI™! He owes me at least one sincere apology but cannot bring himself to make it. He is in no position to call others out for not apologising! What a scumbag! I mean, without even doing any research, you would know that farmers would not sell their sheep for $1. Then, Bobby had the cheek to post up a link to an article that I could not read all of, because I would have to subscribe. So, I asked him to post up the full article. He has chickened out.

I couldn't get back into that article either but I found it on web archive and posted
it all and the link too - again:


Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:47pm:

Good - the article was saved in the web archive site: http://web.archive.org/web/20231028133334/https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market

I also found another website which backed up the story: here again:


Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:30pm:

This seems to be a copy of the afr article: https://www.vikingfoodsolutions.com.au/industry-update/flock-fallout-plummeting-lamb-prices-in-australia/ The impact is acutely felt by Western Australian producers, grappling with prices dropping to as low as $1 or $2 per head.

You still didn't apologise to me for calling me a liar.    ::)

Lambs back to the paddock sold from $46 to $135 and lambs to feed on made from $112 to $162/head. Light trade lambs under 18kg sold from $95 to $135/head. Trade lambs 18 to 22kg sold from $140 to $195, lambs 22 to 26kg sold $189 to $248/head to have a wide range from 730c to 880c/kg cwt. Heavy export lambs 26 to 30kg made from $231 to $279 and over 30kg sold from $278 to $304/head with an average range of 860c to 885c/kg cwt. Hoggets were in limited supply, with the better quality selling from $120 to $198/head for the crossbreds and $92 to $124/head for the Merino’s.


Mutton numbers were similar with 9,910 penned. Quality ranged from plain to very good, not all the usual buyers were operating and standing off the rail in a cheaper market across the yarding. Merino wethers sold from $34 to $82 for the light weights, selling to $25 cheaper and the medium and heavy weights sold from $88 to $183, selling $10 to $15 softer. Merino Ewes made from $35 to $105 for the lighter weights and $94 to $154/head for the heavy weights, selling from $10 to $20/head cheaper, with Merino mutton averaging 440c to 530c/kg cwt. Heavy crossbred mutton made from $110 to $160, and the light weights made from $21 to $122, selling $10 to $30/head softer. There were sales under $10/head for very light mutton.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:58pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:55pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. Wow, just look at that last line from TVI™! He owes me at least one sincere apology but cannot bring himself to make it. He is in no position to call others out for not apologising! What a scumbag! Monk, you are teaching other posters here not to apologise when they are caught out calling me a liar. You do it all the time you ASPD affected mental case.

Bobby, I am now convinced that you have antisocial personality disorder.

I said that what you wrote was not true. Here is why:

What is the price of live sheep per kilogram/pound in Australia today?

Quote:

The retail price range in Australian Dollar for live sheep is between AUD 5.90 and AUD 8.85 per kilogram or between AUD 2.68 and AUD 4.02 per pound(lb) in Canberra and Melbourne.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:41pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:40pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. I will consider that a threat. And I will consider that you have the obligation of apologising. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep.

You might be talking about $1 per kilo, not per sheep.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 8:23am:

Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:41pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:40pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. I will consider that a threat. And I will consider that you have the obligation of apologising. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep. You might be talking about $1 per kilo, not per sheep.

It was per sheep. I was told this from a WA sheep farmer who was visiting.

John Smith wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 8:28am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 26th, 2024 at 8:23am: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:41pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:40pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 12:18pm: UnSubRocky is a man of no honor and no character. He knows he's wrong but won't apologise. I will consider that a threat. And I will consider that you have the obligation of apologising. Price gouging. They were selling lamb for top prices last year and the farmers were only getting one dollar for a whole sheep. You might be talking about $1 per kilo, not per sheep. It was per sheep. I was told this from a WA sheep farmer who was visiting.

yes - it was for a whole sheep - Rocky can't read:



Bobby. wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:47pm:

Good - the article was saved in the web archive site: http://web.archive.org/web/20231028133334/https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/sheep-prices-plunge-as-farmers-flood-market-20230922-p5e6rj Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market

Bobby. wrote on Jul 26^th, 2024 at 7:44am:

You still didn't apologise to me for calling me a liar.    ::)

I don't recall ever calling you a liar. I said "you know that this is not true".

"Dick.... head. You know that is not true" was what I wrote. I can apologise for calling you a "dick.... head", though. That is not true.

For Bobby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A75AgrH5eqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNdJv49mmRM

Just thought you should know. Good movie.

mothra wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 9:55am:

So don't eat meat. Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round.

People our age should avoid red meat (one really nice steak a week is fine) and eat more white meat and leafy green vegetables.

That is what I did for Mum and the doctor was really surprised Mum was doing so well years after the dementia was diagnosed—I was there and saw the look on his face. Hehehe one easy leafy green veg is salads. Now, Mum LOVED salads but got bored when I served salad too often.

Or be a complete vegetarian, not something for me I will say, but eat dairy and eggs,  maybe fish.

I put the advice of Dr Eric Berg to good use in recent months. He understands the concept of a good diet.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 27^th, 2024 at 6:20am:

mothra wrote on Jul 25th, 2024 at 9:55am: So don't eat meat. Better for absolutely everyone and everything all round. People our age should avoid red meat (one really nice steak a week is fine) and eat more white meat and leafy green vegetables. That is what I did for Mum and the doctor was really surprised Mum was doing so well years after the dementia was diagnosed—I was there and saw the look on his face. Hehehe one easy leafy green veg is salads. Now, Mum LOVED salads but got bored when I served salad too often. Or be a complete vegetarian, not something for me I will say, but eat dairy and eggs,  maybe fish.

I’m not a complete vegetarian as I’ve grown up on a farm since young with chooks, and little piglets and a cow! So from young I remember as young as 2 n half eating soft boiled egg mum spoon fed me and chewing on bacon rind …
Milk and cheese had been part of my staple diet forever.
But last 30 years I’ve drastically reduced consumption of cheese and red meat.
And I feel better for it.
Now it’s sugar and carbs I’m concentrating on avoiding!  ;D
I’m enjoying being creative with vegetable recipes.
My daughter announced she decided age 9 she’s a vegetarian!
And has stuck to it. She’s 40 with no health issues, not one grey hair and her BP is excellent!
At age 40 I was salt and pepper grey! And with BP is issues.

I would eat more cheese, little to no red meat if I were you.

I would suggest that you eat the type of diet that is appropriate for your needs.