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# This fact amazed me in Lausanne!
Why the hell is meat so damn expensive?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:19, archived)
# Coz the have to eat only the finest Nazi gold before they are taken to the slaughter:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:21, archived)
# Government subsidies.
Imports are massively taxed to be more expensive than Swiss produce. The Swiss farmers know this, so can charge what they like and the standards are low, but they will always get the money they want. Also, the large nationalistic streak of the local populace means they will buy Swiss over better imports.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:22, archived)
# That's a bit of a generalisation
I'm sure that there's are morally proud farmers in there. They'er probably the ones that yodel.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:23, archived)
# Nope.
Monopoly is not just a board game here...
And even if a farmer did sell his stuf cheaply, then the supermarkets would mark it up. We have effectively only two supermarkets here and what few other stores there are are usually owned by one of those two. Same wit the electronics stores, clothing shops, almost everything.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:26, archived)
# My spelling's gone to pot this morning.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:28, archived)
# I meant farmers that produced quality meat.
There's always a market.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:30, archived)
# Ah yes.
This is true. If you don't mind really paying out. I've had steak once since we got here and that was at a friend's house.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:32, archived)
# Ah I see.
I bought some mince one night to cook, and it was about 10francs for a quarter of a kilo of beef! And that in a country that is supposedly famous for its cows :D
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:24, archived)
# In Neuchatel the have a cow festival.
They dress their cows up and parade them through the streets:D
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:41, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
Such lunacy :D When I was there, I went to a Brass Band festival in Montreux. It was absolutely amazing!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:42, archived)
# YOu know what I miss.
You remember about 6-7 years ago they did an international cow festival and they took a 100 idenital lifesized cow models, had the lot painted on by artists and displayed in prominant public places round the world?
It was fantastic. Wandering round town and seeing bizaare looking bovines in the must unusual places then you'd come back in a month's time and there'd be a different one near where the previous one had been.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:55, archived)
# Yes, I remember that!
It was fucking win!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 11:51, archived)