Colonel Sanders’ veggie nuggets: Where’s the beef indeed

Beef farmers are fighting for better prices from powerful processors and, despite a €100m Government subsidy, have demanded more “money on the table from the minister”.

Beef producers are in a very difficult position, but then so are many other small, family-run businesses, most of which can only dream of a no-strings-attached rescue package. This anomaly, this unequal treatment, has been a feature of Irish life for decades, even though it seems increasingly unsustainable on social or environmental grounds.