Bringing home the bacon — but whose is it?

BUYING a piece of meat has become really confusing. In my local discount supermarket a few days after the pigmeat affair, I purchased a small joint of meat.

The front label told me it was a ‘Milton Gate cured pork loin’. On the side of the pack was a large blue label with the European stars thereon stating it was ‘Non-Irish — EU Origin Pork’.

But the label on the rear of the pack told me a somewhat different story. It stated that the product was Irish because it had the EU ellipse on it with the following — ‘IRL P528 EC’.

The rear label also gave the name and address of a bacon company in Co Kilkenny.

Is it any wonder we consumers feel we’re being taken for a gallop?

Kevin Mansfield

‘Woodlands’

Green Hill

Fermoy

Co Cork