They did not do small farmers any favours
A dodgy farmer, a dodgy butcher, the obligatory Asian
slaughterman, and aTesco supplier owned by an Asian.Actually, the
Tesco supplier didn't look that bad to me. Worse goes on the Page Street
canteen, I imagine. It was fairly obvious that the butcher was partly
exaggerating. The "farmer" site was disgusting.
Stitching up
minorities, small scale-farming and bashing the supermarkets.They must have
taken a course in Page Street on frame-ups. Rule 1 - blame somebody most
people have a prejudice about. Preferably a scam that you have known about
for ages and done nothing to stop. That way you can be sure it will be good
on camera when your brave lads and lassies raid with their clipboards at the
ready.
I didn't notice anyone asking Trading Standards why they had done
nothing about a case they already knew about. Perhaps they thought they
would let them poison a few hundred people so that they would have the
evidence to shut them down.
Still very soon we are going to get the
chance to ask the boss of the FSA why he ignores whistle-blowers dealing with
BIG food safety scams.