GRADING OF MUTTON AND BEEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 7

GRADING OF MUTTON AND BEEF.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib—l noticed in your issue of the 21st that a Chinese market gardener in Wellington had been fined £5 tor dishonest and fraudulent packing of vegetables. I would like .to ask you, hiv.ii this is anv worse than the practice of butchers in selling ewe mutton and wether mutton or cow and steer beef at the same price. Although the ewe and cow meat is quite wholesome, it is not of the same quality or price as the wether or steer meat. Few housewives, if any, know the difference, and I think the Government should bo approached to make it compulsory for butchers'meat to be graded and stamped ewe mutton, wether mutton, cow beef and steer beef, respectively, so that the consumers might know what they were buying. I cannot understand why the tanners Union ->r Chamber of Commerce has not taken this matter up years ago, but trust that this letter will induce abler pens to expose the position more fully to the public. Personally. I think that any butcher who sells ewe mutton at the same price as wether mutton is no better than the Chinese who employed his trick with the vegetables.—l am, etc., January 24. Consumer.