coolcat21:Are the meat/poultry/fish we buy in NZ free-range? Free-range/grass-fed without antibiotics & hormone. The meats/poultry/fish we buy from stores like Countdown, Pak n Save, Mad Butcher etc. If there are not explicit label saying it is.

pgs2050: Free range / organic / gluten free - if it doesn't say so on the label, it definitely isn't. The producers of these kinds of products will not waste the opportunity to label it and charge you more (if only because it costs more to produce).

coolcat21:

pgs2050: Free range / organic / gluten free - if it doesn't say so on the label, it definitely isn't. The producers of these kinds of products will not waste the opportunity to label it and charge you more (if only because it costs more to produce).

so you're saying all those unlabelled over-the-counter beef that you can get from mad butcher, countdown, foodtown, paknsave are all non grass fed ?

mattwnz:

coolcat21:

pgs2050: Free range / organic / gluten free - if it doesn't say so on the label, it definitely isn't. The producers of these kinds of products will not waste the opportunity to label it and charge you more (if only because it costs more to produce).

so you're saying all those unlabelled over-the-counter beef that you can get from mad butcher, countdown, foodtown, paknsave are all non grass fed ?

They haven't said that. You need to read the assoicated websites that these meat producers belong to, or ask the manager at your supermarket. If it has a NZ beef sticker on it it has to meat certain standards.

coolcat21:

gzt:

coolcat21:

There might be some confusion here. These are all separate things:

Free-range
Grass-fed
Without antibiotics
Hormone
Organic

One or more of which can all be applied to:

Meat
Poultry
Fish

ie; Free range does not mean without antibiotics.

KiwiNZ: Lamb and Beef are free range. Chicken and Pork will be labelled if free range.

joker97:

KiwiNZ: Lamb and Beef are free range. Chicken and Pork will be labelled if free range.

i had the impression that the term free range is not legislated. ie one could label anything as free range.

coolcat21:

gzt:

coolcat21:

There might be some confusion here. These are all separate things:

Free-range
Grass-fed
Without antibiotics
Hormone
Organic

One or more of which can all be applied to:

Meat
Poultry
Fish

ie; Free range does not mean without antibiotics.

Huh..always thought it was.
Yikes, i don't wanna eat chicken which had been on any kind of roids lol...

Encyclopedia of New Zealand: The Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand states that hormones have never been used in poultry meat production, and that poultry is the only meat in New Zealand that is regularly and independently tested for the presence of hormones, and found free of them.

Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Antibiotics have been used in meat, milk and egg production in New Zealand since government approval in the 1960s.