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« on: January 30, 2011, 04:43:07 pm »
Hi Bronwen and Andvan Wyk "?",
Thanks for the info. I have been buying meat from Pick'n Pay. It is part of their "Country reared" program.
They guarantee that the animals have not been fed growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids etc. The larger supermarkets sell it. It is not in all their stores. I get mine from PNP in Park Meadows shopping mall (near Eastgate shopping Centre). Norwood, Fourways Crossing and Northgate also stock it, but I have found that the staff at Northgate arent very helpful, and the hygiene is questionable. Park Meadows staff are friendly and are honest, and their butchery is spotless. If they have meat which is not country reared, they will tell you so. They also sell eggs which are labelled "indigenous" and come from a farm called Boschveld. I have been there, and their eggs are truly free range. A few people who advertise "free range" arent in fact truly free range. What they mean is that they allow the chickens to walk about in an open enclosure, with no grass to be seen. They are still grain fed.
I was hoping that if we could find enough people, we could form a little group who could visit the places who advertise free range and see for ourselves.
Bye for now
Dillis