There were times when the Czech customer did not have to be afraid to shop in domestic stores. Although the food was of poor quality when it came to animal products and therefore relatively risky, the Czech Republic had a very good reputation as one of the safest countries. But that is far from the case today.
They just caught something
For several months now, the State Agricultural and Food Inspection Agency has been reporting one finding in chicken meat after another. They have quite a lot in common. Salmonella is found in most of them and it is usually supplied to the Czech market by the company We Trade, from which retail chains such as Tesco, Penny Market or Makro like to buy it.
There have already been at least six arrests within approximately three months, which is a truly sad result. Unfortunately, it is almost certain that many batches were not tested and went unnoticed. Even so, this serious problem is not talked about much in the public space.
This did not let one of the prominent Czech farmers sleep, who described everything bluntly and straightforwardly. “There is one thing from Ukraine, and that is grain, and then animal, that is the chickens with salmonella, and no one dares to say – that’s enough! And it is known that it is repackaged in Slovakia and that some Ukrainian owns it and still wants to increase turnover,” said Jaroslav Šíma, the head of the Pilsen branch of the Agrarian Chamber, who also runs an agricultural holding. “The point is that he keeps the chickens somewhere and we have to have them without cages. Abolishing cage farming has cost an awful lot of money. It turned out exactly as I said about five years ago.“
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He wants to drive here even more
The farmer alludes to the interesting fact that the given company importing chicken meat here seems not to have been harmed by the aforementioned problems. On the contrary, he wants to increase imports into the Czech Republic and nobody is too bothered by it.
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Šíma also paused over the constant taunting of retail chains that they are not to blame for the increase in prices. He considers it ridiculous that the Czech public is presented with figures such as the 2 to 4% profitability they claim to have. According to him, these are artificially created numbers, while the real profit is significantly higher.
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2024-01-01 17:00:00
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