I ended up finding labels for meat at the butchers and it’s mostly European meat!! Very worrisome considering they’ve been a local fully British butchers for many decades! Their chicken breasts, and sausages, including their steak mince comes from Eastern Europe. They used to prepare all those meats (except the chicken, but it was still local). Much more expensive for less meat from questionable, unknown sources, let alone ethical.
Recently our food regulators also found a lot of our pork was being adulterated with illegal, rotten foreign meat and had entered shops here on a supermarket scale… Just, wtf, how can the UK not maintain our food standards? I don’t want us going the same route as the United States.
Supermarket meat quality seems to fluctuate quite a lot at the moment, but it’s getting worse. Chicken especially…
Meat despite the premium price has been a treat for me, but lately I’ve been put off it.
Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Asda, all just plummeting in value.