All independent butchers across the country have been classified as non-essential businesses.

The scare has had a benefit for smaller, independent butchers and firms.

Sir, -I am concerned about the origin of meats in independent butchers.

He said many independent butchers would be left with product they could not sell.

Photo: 123rf.com All independent butchers across the country have been classified as non-essential businesses.

The government is loosening some restrictions on independent butchers.

She said the was still hope independent butchers could reopen before meat had to be dumped.

Retail Meats New Zealand general manager Pippa Hawkins said it had about 110 independent butchers among its members.

This, though, has allowed independent butchers, grocers, and vintners to survive and thrive, far more than in the UK.

With independent butchers, Asian retailers and the food service sector closed in lockdown, half the country's pork market disappeared overnight.

The pork industry is worried the closure of independent butchers during the Covid-19 lockdown will cause an animal welfare crisis for the sector.

Up to five million dollars of chilled meat is headed to landfill if independent butchers are not allowed to reopen within the next five days.

Millions of dollars worth of chilled meat may be headed to landfill if independent butchers are not allowed to reopen within the next five days.

Major retailers refused to sell the product out of fear of antagonising Koreans, but the few independent butchers who offered US beef quickly sold out.

The Liberty Market, the independent butchers and grocers, and the street stalls selling biscuits and sundry, are reminiscent of a Dublin in the old days.