Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The trade in Great Britain

Collection:: Economics Books

LA The expansion of the imported meat trade throughout the country is, however, a point of importance which calls for more than a passing reference. As is shown in Chapter I, the quantity of imported meat consumed in this country has recently increased, both relatively and absolutely; it now occupies a prominent position in the retail trade. Before the war, home and imported supplies were usually handled separately, right to the table of the consumer. There was a trickle from the imported stream into butchers’ shops which also sold home-killed, but, as a rule, the sale of imported meat was confined to retail establishments which specialised in that trade. To obtain imported meat, therefore, the ordinary consumer had to buy from a shop which traded in nothing else and, owing to the prejudice against imported supplies, often incurred some social stigma in doing so. In 1914, there were many thousands of people in this country who had never, knowingly, tasted imported meat, and on thousands of butchers’ counters it had never found a place. To-day, however, bhis is entirely changed; people who, before the war, never ate imported meat, now eat nothing else, and though there are still many retailers who confine their trade to fresh-killed meat, yet the majority include imported meat in their buying, and many have gone over entirely to the imported meat trade: It is now common to find butchers, even with a high-class family trade, displaying a notice to the effect that all meat sold in their establishment is imported unless otherwise stated. The offering for sale of home and imported meat, side by side, in the same shop, makes the alternative an immediate one, and imported meat has now selling opportunities unknown and undreamt of ten years ago. The competition confronting home-produced supplies has, therefore, intensified enormously. It may be observed that under the Sale of Food Order, 1921, it is for- bidden to expose for retail sale any imported meat unless such meat bears a label with the word ‘ Imported ” or words disclosing the country of origin, or unless a notice is exhibited in a conspicuous position indicating that only imported meat is on sale. The Linlithgow Committee remarked, in this connec- tion, that < in some parts of the country serious efforts are made ¢ to enforce the provisions of the Order, not least, in a number “ of cases, by local retail meat-traders’ associations themselves; “ in others, the Order does not appear to be an effective “ instrument.” * During the war, meat was allocated under control in such a way that most consumers had, at times, to take their share of the imported article. This helped to remove the prejudice against refrigerated supplies, although much of the imported meat was somewhat poor in quality. Frozen goods of really good quality, as. for example, New Zealand mutton and lamb. * See also “ Report of Royal Commission on Food Prices.” (Cmd. 2390. 1925), para. 237 et seq.; also ““ Report of Imperial Economic Committee (Cmd. 2499. 1925), para. 53; also Clause 2. Merchandise Marks (Imported Agricultural Produce) Bill. 1925.

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