An open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on behalf of the independent butchers of New Zealand to urgently reclassify local butcheries as essential services in line with dairies.
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As you are aware, Auckland will be going into Alert Level 3 from noon today for three days, with the rest of New Zealand going into Alert Level 2 at noon today for three days. Find more information in this article.
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The Great New Zealand Sausage Competition is the premier event for New Zealand smallgoods producers. And with good reason - the competition consistently receives hundreds of entries from all over the country, attracts significant media interest, and the public can’t get enough of the humble (and not so humble) snag.
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The Great New Zealand Sausage Competition - the premier event for New Zealand smallgoods producers - is on and entires will be opening soon.
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Are you thinking of entering one of our butcher competitions and would like some tips, ideas, and a chance to ask questions? Watch our Online Meat Club next week Thursday live on Facebook at 7:30 pm.
James Smith and Reuben Sharples, both members of the Hellers Sharp Blacks, will go through the cuts for the whole pork leg and share some tips for the competition. Also, bring any questions you have for Michelle from the RMNZ team.
The search is on for New Zealand’s next top butcher. Entries have opened for the Alto Young Butcher, ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice and Pure South Master Butcher of the Year Competitions. The event is a firm favourite on the industry calendar, and is welcomed back a little later this year due to recent events.
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The search begins for the best butchers in New Zealand, with entries for the 2020 Alto Young Butcher, ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice and the all-new Pure South Master Butcher of the Year, are now officially open. The competitions aim to find the best talent in the retail meat sector and this is your chance to showcase your skills and be recognised by both your peers and those within the industry.
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Over the past few years we've noticed that during the competitions, contestants who have a mentor guiding them throughout the process seem to do a little better than those who don't. This inspired us to set up a Mentorship Programme alongside the Alto Young Butcher and ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice of the Year competitions, to give all of our contestants the best chance to succeed.
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The RMNZ team are pleased to announce that the Alto Young Butcher, ANZCO Foods Butcher Apprentice, and the new Pure South Master Butcher of the Year competitions will be going ahead this year. We've had to push the dates back a little with the regionals now taking place in August and the Grand Final taking place in late October.
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As you may have seen yesterday afternoon, the Prime Minister answered a press question around butchers operating online with contactless deliveries. This morning we have received official confirmation from MPI & MBIE that this is accurate and their websites will be updated to reflect this.
Butchers have been approved to operate an online/over the phone service with contactless delivery. Butchers must keep their doors closed to the public and must not provide a click and collect or pick up service. We will send through the official advisory notice shortly when we receive it.
Animal welfare crisis if independent butchers remain excluded from essential business list
The Government’s decision to exclude independent butchers from the essential business list will cause an animal welfare crisis in the New Zealand pork sector. All independent butchers across the country have been classified as non-essential businesses and been forced to close as part of the Alert Level 4 lock-down for COVID-19. However, the decision will likely result in the pork sector having no place to house up to 5,000 surplus pigs on farm every week.
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The official COVID-19 government website has just updated its information and it now states:
'Butchers, bakeries and similar small-scale food retailers are considered non-essential'.
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The retail meat industry is asking for urgent clarification from the government regarding the status of independent butcher stores and their classification as an ‘essential service’.
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Following on from our communications yesterday where we advised you what is deemed 'essential services' (based off the official COVID-19 government website), we wanted to provide some recommendations and guidance on how best to operate during this time to protect yourselves and your staff, and minimise the risk and spread of Coronavirus.
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Global networking group, Meat Business Women are stepping onto the world stage as they accept an invitation to speak at the World Meat Congress (WMC) in Cancun, Mexico on June 12.
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Lamb was voted as the meat of choice for Kiwis this Christmas as part of the Classic Kiwi Christmas Census 2019.
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In celebration of the Great New Zealand #SausageFest, chef Jarrod McGregor has created a delicious Pork Sausage, Caramlised Onion & Feta Tart.
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Westmere Butchery in Auckland has taken out New Zealand’s top sausage award for the second year in a row. They were announced as the Supreme Award winner for the 2019 Devro Great New Zealand Sausage Competition
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The Devro Great New Zealand Sausage Competition is reaching out to the sausage-loving Kiwi public to find New Zealand’s snarler super fan to help crown Aotearoa’s tastiest sausage.
Do you know your bratwurst from your boerewors? Are you fanatical about frankfurters? Can you smell a sausage sizzle from six hundred metres? If so, we need your help.
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New Zealand has finalised the ANZCO Foods Young Butchers of New Zealand Squad that will compete at the World Champion Butcher Apprentice and Young Butcher competitions – the curtain raiser to the World Butchers’ Challenge in Sacramento next September.
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