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Market butcher forced to stop displaying meat and game because 'townies' object: Family firm targeted with anonymous hate mail because of carcasses hanging in the window

  • JBS Family Butchers spent hours each week perfecting window displays 
  • But it has been hit with anonymous hate mail and people hurling abuse
  • Unplucked birds and pig or deer heads were hung up in the shopfront 
  • Assistant manager of butcher's in Suffolk says staff have been stunned

For more than 100 years, butchers in the market town of Sudbury have proudly displayed their meats in their shop windows.

 

 

But now one has been forced to stop hanging game such as pheasants, partridges and rabbits in his shopfront after a vicious campaign, blamed on ‘townies’ who have recently moved in.

Staff at JBS Family Butchers, which has sawdust on the floor and takes great pride in its link to local suppliers and the countryside way of life, spent hours every week perfecting their window displays featuring meat and game.

 

 

Before the protests: A typical display at the butcher's, with pigs' heads among the meat and game on show
 
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Before the protests: A typical display at the butcher's, with pigs' heads among the meat and game on show

'Persecuted': JBS Family Butchers assistant manager Richard Nicholson, 25, said staff had been stunned
 
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'Persecuted': JBS Family Butchers assistant manager Richard Nicholson, 25, said staff had been stunned

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Where will it stop? How far can it go? To make a point, I could make an argument against almost any display of any type.



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My Manager is an old Irish butcher and he has told me on many an occasion of how they would have contests, window dressing displays, in his home town and all the shops would partake.  His shop would have the whole stuffed hog all decked out surrounded by all kinds of other smaller fancy meats.


I read the rest of the article and noticed they were part of the NFMFT.   http://www.nfmft.co.uk/ Is there a group like this in the U.S. ?



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.thenigno you ask   http://www.nfmft.co.uk/ Is there a group like this in the U.S. ?

I WISH, our meat industry would have a hard time coming together to have programs like that

 



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I know we have a few different organizations, but all of them are constrained to the USDA's rules correct? Now the NFMFT it is a government organization or private backed by govt? Also what role does our NAMP provide? I don't think they offer anything but procedures for big business. Most everything I have learned much of my cutting knowledge from their guides, very informational from what I can see.


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I know we have a few different organizations, but all of them are constrained to the USDA's rules correct? Now the NFMFT it is a government organization or private backed by govt? Also what role does our NAMP provide? I don't think they offer anything but procedures for big business. Most everything I have learned much of my cutting knowledge from their guides, very informational from what I can see.

Without getting all political I get the impression people think the UDSA and federal rules are to hinder business, they are there for totally different reasons.. The NFMFT seem to me to be a lobby group in some aspects to lobby to the EU regards european laws ie a federal state as such.

In my opinion you need law makers to set laws and regulations to protect the final person who buys the products ie the consumers ,you can't have a situation where the seller has free scope because people cheat and when it comes to money they cheat. The USDA they can determine what is safe to eat and what isnt rather than some manager or small butcher who just sniffs a chicken and puts it out to sell because they are worried about shrink.

The customer needs confidence that meat has USDA rules only last week someone was in asking if our chicken was from China and if it was bleached.

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