The farmer gets $5 a kilo. You pay $69
June 19, 2010 by green team
Filed under Food, Green Reporter
KEL SHARMAN, a Tasmanian beef farmer, was astonished to find out that meat from a beast he sold for about $5 a kilogram last month was on sale at a Surry Hills butchery this week for $69.
“You’re joking,” Mr Sharman said. “I’m in the wrong line of business.”
In theory, every piece of meat sold in Australia can now be identified and traced to its source paddock via the bar code on its packaging.
