Meat Marketing
Sir, —Last Saturday you printed views of Mr W. B. Trotter on the subject of meat prices—the rapacity of the “big five” and what not. I have by me a cutting from the press of a similar complaint by Mr W. J. Polson, M.P. The date was about the time Beaulivre—or was it Beau Vite?—won the Great Northern Derby. There is no new thing under the sun. Nobody outside the meat industry knows anything about it and very few in. But these few are as surefooted as a cat on sand paper. History is littered with the mangled remains of those who have tried to teach them their business. The meat retail trade in Britain is free. Anyone can have a go. There were 66,000 retail butchers in Britain before the war. There are now only 40,000: The industry’s reply to Mr Trotter was very charitable. —Yours, etc., CHAS. DUNSTAN. Ashburton, April 3, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 3
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156Meat Marketing Press, Volume CI, Issue 29791, 6 April 1962, Page 3
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