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Indonesia – Animal abusers through and through for a few dollars more !

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/08/01/water-logged-beef-sale-throughout-bantul.html

Water-logged beef on sale throughout Bantul

Slamet Susanto, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta | Archipelago | Thu, August 01 2013, 8:29 AM

Of some 1.2 tons of beef sold in Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, half has allegedly been saturated with water, a practice known locally as glonggongan, according to the chairman of a local meat traders association.

“[The sale of] water-logged meat is rampant. It accounts for up to 50 percent of the total meat on the market,” Bantul Beef Traders Association chairman Ilham Ahmadi said recently.

Such meat is usually produced by pumping water into the cow until its stomach and intestines burst. To allow the water to be better absorbed into the meat, thus increasing its mass, the cow is usually not slaughtered right away.

Slaughter is delayed until the animal is at the point of death.

“This kind of meat is not suitable for human consumption because the e-coli bacteria content is very high. The practice also deceives customers,” Ilham said.

A beef trader, Jandi Jangiaarto, said that in Banguntapan district alone, four to five cows were pumped full of water before being slaughtered daily.

With a cow yielding some 100 kilograms of water-logged beef, this means between 400 and 500 kilograms of such meat are produced daily in that particular district.

“That doesn’t count those traders who receive water-logged meat from the [neighboring] Central Java slaughter houses,” Jandi said.

He blamed the local administration for allowing such conditions to occur because the practice was considered useful to stabilize meat prices.

Normal beef is priced at Rp 90,000 (US$8.7) per kilogram but water-logged beef sells for only Rp 70,000 per kg.

Consumers, who buy such beef, however, only get some 60 percent meat as the rest is water. “This is effectively cheating. Consumers are in fact paying more for the meat,” Jandi said.

Bantul Industry, Trade and Cooperatives Agency head Sulistyanto denied water-logged beef was sold within his jurisdiction. “I guarantee there is no water-logged beef sold here. We conduct market raids and monitoring daily,”
Sulistyanto said.

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A wealthy businessman accused of turning picturesque woodland into a wasteland to build a track to his pheasant shoot has been ordered to pay out almost £1 million.

By Rosa Silverman, Sally Wardle and agencies

01 Aug 2013

Philip Day, who owns the Edinburgh Woollen Mill chain and is said to be as rich as the Queen, is the proprietor of Gelt Woods in Cumbria, where stones for Hadrian’s Wall were quarried almost 2,000 years ago.

In November 2010, trees were felled on the slopes of the site where the river cuts a gorge through the sandstone, and land was excavated to make a “significant” track.

The 72-acre plot of land is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and protected by multiple conservation orders.

Before the illegal felling it was sheltered by birch, oak, and alder trees, while mosses and liverworts thrived on the damp sandstone outcrops.

The glade was also home to a variety of birds, including pied flycatchers, redstarts and wood warblers.

Day, 47, told a court he did not know the felling work was to be carried out and had not authorised it.

But because allowing unauthorised work on a site of special scientific interest is a “strict liability” offence, he pleaded guilty at Carlisle Crown Court to two charges and was fined £450,000 with £457,000 full costs.

According to prosecutors, the trees were cut down to create a track allowing access to the riverside land for shooting.

Day’s defence lawyers denied this, saying there had been a landslip and the felling was necessary to make the riverbank safe.

Judge Peter Hughes QC said the multi-millionaire retailer had been “grossly negligent” over the work, which severely damaged protected flora in the ancient woodland.

He also criticised Day’s defence for “seeking to use the power of his wealth to avoid responsibility,” which had rebounded to his “lasting disgrace”.

Day’s £300m estimated fortune ranks him 277th in The Sunday Times Rich List.

His home at Edmond Castle, a 19th century Tudor-style country pile near the small market town of Brampton, is just a mile away.

The Gelt Woods site is an RSPB nature reserve, and cliffs there still bear the marks of Roman stonemasons who worked during the building of Hadrian’s Wall in around 122AD.

George Laurence QC, mitigating, said Day had neither known about nor authorised the felling that caused the damage, and the prosecution had accepted this.

The court also heard Day had already begun to repair the damage.

But the judge, who took court officials and legal teams to the woods to examine the scene for himself, said fines had to reflect legitimate public concern about the protection of conservation areas.

After the hearing Janette Ward, regulation director for Natural England, which brought the prosecution said: “Legal action is always regrettable and we were disappointed that a woodland of such ecological importance and one that was very special to the local community was so severely damaged

“We welcome the fact that Mr Day has undertaken a programme of voluntary restoration and hope that he will now work with us to manage this special area more appropriately in the future.”

A spokesman for Day insisted he was “passionate about the countryside and committed to conservation.”

He said: “As acknowledged by the judge in this case, Philip Day did not deliberately set out to damage a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

“He was shocked to find that damage had been caused to the site by contractors.

“As soon as he became aware of this, he worked closely with Natural England to carry out a full restoration programme, which was completed over two years ago.

“Mr Day intends to appeal against the sentence. The fine is nine times the amount imposed for previous similar offences.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/10216155/Multi-millionaire-retailer-illegally-felled-trees-to-build-track-to-his-pheasant-shoot.html

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