most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-24T15:56:41Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/question/13411 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat Geoff 2010-11-01T20:49:15Z 2012-09-19T16:33:05Z

<p>Does anyone know if UK supermarket chain Asda (WallMart) organic beef is solely pastured?</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat/13412#13412 CT 2010-11-01T20:55:41Z 2010-11-01T20:55:41Z

<p>I actually asked a similar question in a store once. The store manager had no idea and didn't know how he could find out! I can't help but think that, given they're cheap and cheerful ethos, it's probably not. </p> <p>Waitrose is, in my opinion, head and shoulders above the other supermarkets in terms of meat quality and provenance.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat/13414#13414 mari 2010-11-01T21:19:02Z 2010-11-01T21:19:02Z

<p>Unless it says so, my guess would be no.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat/13416#13416 Matt 2010-11-01T21:45:30Z 2010-11-02T16:19:06Z

<p>In the UK organically farmed rumminants (cows and sheep) have to be fed a minimum of 60% fodder, roughage or silage and a maximum of 40% concentrate feed.</p> <p>Concentrate feed covers a whole range of different food sources. Animals are grazed for as long as the growing season allows, grass does not grow during the colder months in the UK. Silage is fed in the winter.</p> <p>Some definitions:</p> <p>Fodder: coarse food composed of entire plants, or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop.</p> <p>Roughage: food that is high in fibre such as hay, corn and straw.</p> <p>Silage: livestock feed which is harvested and preserved for winter feeding by partial fermentation.</p> <p>Source from <a href="http://92.52.112.178/web/sa/saweb.nsf/ed0930aa86103d8380256aa70054918d/e202354dc28addb580257149004cb427?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat/13437#13437 andrew 2010-11-02T08:17:17Z 2010-11-02T08:17:17Z

<p>I don't buy meat from a supermarket precisely because I don't know the answer to the question. I'm pretty sure, though, that lamb would be OK.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/13411/uk-supermarkets-organic-meat/150545#150545 fred niche 2012-09-19T16:33:05Z 2012-09-19T16:33:05Z

<p>I used to work for an abattoir, now the biggest producer of pork for British supermarkets like Sainsbury, Cranswick Country Foods nr Hull, and in my experience when they didnt have enough organic meat to fill an order the line leaders would tell us to just pack the non-organic meat instead as nobody would tell the difference and it makes their life easier. So I'd stay well clear of supermarket meat.</p>