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ORIGINAL: Willie

I get my chicken from a Chinese supermarket, it's shot up in price recently though - used the be £3.58 a kilo, now a shocking £4.08

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ORIGINAL: Monster T

We have just got used to cheap meat and food whilst the farmers have been getting royally fecked. As long as the supermarkets aren't pocketing the extra and the farmers are actually getting more now then we can't complain. Without them we really would be stuffed.

MT

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ORIGINAL: Monster T

We have just got used to cheap meat and food whilst the farmers have been getting royally fecked. As long as the supermarkets aren't pocketing the extra and the farmers are actually getting more now then we can't complain. Without them we really would be stuffed.

MT

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ORIGINAL: Monster T

This could spiral into a big debate, lol, but here we go:

As a country we are on a slippery slope to not being able to produce enough of our own food as so many farmers are going bust. The big farms are more like heavy industry than farming! The food gets filled with chemicals and the land is bled dry. I don't want to get poisoned via my food whilst the countryside crumbles.

Farming is not something you can just walk into. It is passed on generation to generation, thats how the land is looked after and communties solidified. You get a "feel" for the land and know where there is water, shelter, etc. If there aren't as many farmers whose going to look after the land? Whose going to produce our food? Do we as a nation want to rely on other countries for the majority of our food? I fecking don't!!

I am NOT a farmer but do know alot of them. I don't want to pay through the nose for food, but they do deserve to get paid. The average farmer may earn £5k after tax nowadays, and thats WITH subsidies taken into account!! Feed has gone up. Diesel has gone up. The cost of living has gone up. The price they get for their animal has fallen LOADS. It doesn't work and won't for much longer. They are on about reduceing/removing subsidies and this will kill farming. It may sound a bit dramatic but in 20 years we will be in a really bad way in relation to food production if the decline isn't turned around.

MT

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ORIGINAL: John1983

This topic has got way out of hand. I thought i had logged into muscletalk, must of clicked on the sunday times forum link instead. Take your points to the house of commons and see what they make of them, bit to complicated for my brain. ha ha.

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ORIGINAL: ThaiFighter

I was in Asda the other day, and noticed that meat seems stupidly expensive now. Here's some examples off the top of my head:

- Chicken breasts = 9.98 per kg
- Rump Steak = 9.87 per kg
- Sirloin Steak = 13.98 per kg!!!!!!!!!!!
- Venison = 12 per kg

In fact, the only reasonably priced source of protein was eggs. I buy my eggs in lots of 60, and it costs me...I think 3.50.

So anyway, I then worked out what the cost per 30g of protein was, and not only was cheap whey cheaper per 30g of protein, but Syntha 6 (a relatively expensive powder) was cheaper per 30g of protein, as was Pro-Pep, as was...well....most of what I could think of.

Does anyone now rely on protein powder MORE now than they used to, for budget reasons?

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ORIGINAL: Mobster

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ORIGINAL: ThaiFighter

I was in Asda the other day, and noticed that meat seems stupidly expensive now. Here's some examples off the top of my head:

- Chicken breasts = 9.98 per kg
- Rump Steak = 9.87 per kg
- Sirloin Steak = 13.98 per kg!!!!!!!!!!!
- Venison = 12 per kg

In fact, the only reasonably priced source of protein was eggs. I buy my eggs in lots of 60, and it costs me...I think 3.50.

So anyway, I then worked out what the cost per 30g of protein was, and not only was cheap whey cheaper per 30g of protein, but Syntha 6 (a relatively expensive powder) was cheaper per 30g of protein, as was Pro-Pep, as was...well....most of what I could think of.

Does anyone now rely on protein powder MORE now than they used to, for budget reasons?

I did an article on this 5 years ago. So it's not a recent thing.

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ORIGINAL: CoNs

mince is still pretty cheap :)

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ORIGINAL: ThaiFighter

I was in Asda the other day, and noticed that meat seems stupidly expensive now. Here's some examples off the top of my head:

- Chicken breasts = 9.98 per kg
- Rump Steak = 9.87 per kg
- Sirloin Steak = 13.98 per kg!!!!!!!!!!!
- Venison = 12 per kg

In fact, the only reasonably priced source of protein was eggs. I buy my eggs in lots of 60, and it costs me...I think 3.50.

So anyway, I then worked out what the cost per 30g of protein was, and not only was cheap whey cheaper per 30g of protein, but Syntha 6 (a relatively expensive powder) was cheaper per 30g of protein, as was Pro-Pep, as was...well....most of what I could think of.

Does anyone now rely on protein powder MORE now than they used to, for budget reasons?