LETTER: Rump and brisket are as different as wing and breast
François Baird of FairPlay and Kevin Lovell of the South African Poultry Association do not know their rump from their brisket. Over the past few weeks they have repeatedly said that the EU dumps bone-in chicken portions in the South African market. For educated and intelligent paid lobbyists, their loyalty to the paymaster cheque book is quite worrying. Lovell knows what constitutes dumping and has brought a number of investigations into dumping against US, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Brazil. Baird, the founder of FairPlay, the anti-dumping movement, should know better than to purely take up reams of newspaper columns with paragraphs of vitriol and get to the grit of actually initiating a dumping investigation to back up his claims. A short course in agricultural economics or even a visit to the local supermarket will demonstrate that rump is priced differently to brisket. One is a boneless cut, and each is targeted at specific market segments. Recently, in Parliament, the chairpe...
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