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Asda "English River Trout"
What do you think of Asda selling farmed rainbows as "English River Trout"..? (The small print confirms that they are farmed in the UK.) How can a Pacific salmon species, which reproduces naturally in the UK only in the Derbyshire Wye (so they used to say) and which in this case has been produced artificially in a fish farm and will therefore never have seen a river, be described as an "English River Trout"..? If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
Interesting. I haven't seen them, but I would have thought its actionable
under the trade descriptions act 1968, the control of misleading advertisement regulations 1988 ( amended 2000 ) and the ASA to name but a few, as I am sure Rainbows are not indigenous to anywhere in the British Isles, therefore its a lie. Nice to see someone posting in this NG tho ! :-) Nig, Scotland "Nogood Boyo" wrote in message ... What do you think of Asda selling farmed rainbows as "English River Trout"..? (The small print confirms that they are farmed in the UK.) How can a Pacific salmon species, which reproduces naturally in the UK only in the Derbyshire Wye (so they used to say) and which in this case has been produced artificially in a fish farm and will therefore never have seen a river, be described as an "English River Trout"..? If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
"Nogood Boyo" wrote in message ... What do you think of Asda selling farmed rainbows as "English River Trout"..? (The small print confirms that they are farmed in the UK.) How can a Pacific salmon species, which reproduces naturally in the UK only in the Derbyshire Wye (so they used to say) and which in this case has been produced artificially in a fish farm and will therefore never have seen a river, be described as an "English River Trout"..? If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. -- Nogood Boyo Some farms have a through flow of river water, would this qualify the fish as river trout? |
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Asda "English River Trout"
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 22:02:24 in uk.rec.fishing.game roddytoo wrote:
Some farms have a through flow of river water, would this qualify the fish as river trout? Would that make it a "river trout" as far as you are concerned..? I doubt it... -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
"Nogood Boyo" wrote in message ... On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 22:02:24 in uk.rec.fishing.game roddytoo wrote: Some farms have a through flow of river water, would this qualify the fish as river trout? Would that make it a "river trout" as far as you are concerned..? I doubt it... -- Nogood Boyo No, but legally, as it has been reared in river water......some bast ooops, barrister could make a lot of money on this case. |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , Nogood Boyo
writes If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. Very observant and well done Phil. Surely Trade Descriptions Act comes into play! ASDA advertise as being the company that knocks back prices . Bread had just gone up in price by 8%. Lying B******S. That's about 6.3 % above the current rate of inflation. Though to be fair I think the price of Wedding Cake has come down quite a bit :-) -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , roddytoo
writes Some farms have a through flow of river water, would this qualify the fish as river trout? A very big "NO" Once the water has been extracted from a river it ceases to be a river. A local fishery had to pay extraction fees for having a brook run in one end of his lake and then leaving at the other end. When it was in the lake it was no longer a river. -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , roddytoo
writes No, but legally, as it has been reared in river water......some bast ooops, barrister could make a lot of money on this case. It would make much more honest advertising if ASDA just said what the Rainbows really are - British bred Rainbow Trout. Judging by some rivers, their advert might well put me off! -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
"W. D. Grey" wrote in message ... In article , Nogood Boyo writes If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. Very observant and well done Phil. Surely Trade Descriptions Act comes into play! ASDA advertise as being the company that knocks back prices . Bread had just gone up in price by 8%. Lying B******S. That's about 6.3 % above the current rate of inflation. Though to be fair I think the price of Wedding Cake has come down quite a bit :-) -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk Hmm, not much demand for wedding cake these days. |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , roddytoo
writes Hmm, not much demand for wedding cake these days. Quite ! -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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