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Irish beef is on sale in the US from today
Simon Coveney is gone to sell Irish beef in three cities in America.
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Simon Coveney is gone to sell Irish beef in three cities in America.
Don’t cross this man.
Chinese officials visited meat plants late last year. A report is now being compiled.
Don’t get bitter Cub, get better.
However, they’ve been told not to fix prices.
Farmers say that there is a €350 gap between prices paid for cattle here and in the UK.
Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.
In the latest development, farmers are holding a 48-hour protest at meat factories around the country.
Thousands of farmers have been camped outside meat processing plants since 3pm this afternoon.
Farmers are calling for prices paid to them for beef to be increased to close the gap between Irish and UK prices.
The IFA said it would stage a 48 protest from 3pm on Sunday if no deal was reached.
McDonald’s and Tesco, the two biggest buyers of Irish beef, attended discussions this evening for the first time.
Farmers were protesting against the prices they get paid for beef.
They’re protesting new age limits on their products in British supermarkets.
A meeting in Navan organised by the Irish Farmers Association saw tempers flare over beef pricing.
Both immediately stopped using meat from the supplier once the revelations emerged.
Officials from the US agriculture department will first need to conclude audits on Irish farms.
The minister has 16 meetings planned over the next four days with multinationals, potential investors and politicians.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association said meat factories are giving the impression that young bull beef is not wanted but we need to make sure live exports are viable.
But all is not well in the beef sector, warns the ICSA.
The news has been welcomed by Simon Coveney, who said that the US will be a “very interesting market” for Ireland’s grass-fed beef.
Coveney announced €195 million for the disadvantaged areas scheme but a cost benefit view has farmers on edge.
Police said the men – whose nationalities were not revealed – were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.
In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Coveney said that his department has handed information to authorities in other countries and that he expects them to pursue prosecutions.
The results were to be submitted to the commission by yesterday, 15 April, and are expected to be published today.
Earlier the Netherlands’ food safety agency said that a Dutch supplier may have distributed as much as 50,000 tonnes of contaminated beef to companies across Europe.
Also today, QK Meats apologised for not contacting the Department of Agriculture about horsemeat found at its plant last year.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney says the horsemeat saga risks damaging Ireland’s food sector – but has it changed the amount of beef that you eat?
An Taisce has called for a vote by the European Parliament Agricultural Committee scrapping penalties to be reversed.
The supermarket giant say they will continue to carry out food tests “to ensure this issue never happens again”.
Tests revealed its chilli con carne product contained 2 per cent horse DNA.
Rangeland says all products are now being DNA tested before release, after Compass Group says it found horse DNA samples in its products despite Rangeland’s assurances.
Greencore – run by Simon Coveney’s brother Patrick – says its beef was sourced from an ABP plant in Nenagh.
It comes after the European Commission announced they would implement a three-month programme of random DNA testing on meat products.
The head of the British parliament’s food affairs scrutiny panel has called for a ban on importing meat from EU countries until the horsemeat scandal is resolved.
Findus UK says it is taking legal advice after early results from its internal investigation “strongly suggest” that the presence of horsemeat in its frozen beef lasagne meals was “not accidental”.
The Food Safety Authority says tests on Aldi’s products are positive – and says not to eat them if you’ve got them.