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Comparing the price of meat: Butchers v. Supermarket Prices

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

NumeracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

  

1. Woolworths have now switched to a new system of supplying their meat to customers involving receiving pre-cut meat from abattoirs and packaging within the store, only cutting on demand if the customer would like a smaller portion.

This week Woolworths is selling:
a. Pre-packaged (before arrival to the store) Regular Beef Mince for $8.80 per kilo
b. MSA graded T-bone Steak for $23 per kilo
c. Beef Sausages (Regular) for $7.35 per kilo

Meat

2. Go to your local butcher: check the prices for the same cuts. Compare the butchers' price for the three cuts to the Woolworths price to find which is more expensive.

3. Ask the butcher how he prepares the meat for sale and how much is done at the supplying Aba
ttoir before he/she purchases it.

4. After finding the difference in price, use your information to decide which service sells the better quality meat.

5. Would you choose the cheapest meat or what you think is better quality? Can these be the same? How do you know? Discuss your option with a partner.

 

 

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Ethics and Live Trade

 High SchoolSecondary

CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Intercultural UnderstandingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Asian Priority

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

PhilosophyPhilosophy

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

 

1. In groups of four students, each read one of the following articles and use the Expert Jigsaw method to share with each other what you have learnt.  Reading

Australian Government: Department of Agriculture
and Water Resources


Department
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ACU: Live animal export: a moral violation?
Dr Simon Coghlan, 2012


ACU
The Conversation 17 June 2016

The conversation

2. Summarise each article.

What is their perspective?
What is their evidence? Or is it just opinion?


Share with your group what you have found.
What do you think of live exports?
Do you think live exports is a moral issue?


3. Discussion

Discuss as a group which perspective has the most persuasive argument. Does it align with your thinking? Why? Why not?

4. As a group come to consensus about which perspective reflects the majority of the group's thinking.

5. Find another group within the class who has a different view. Discuss with that group. Did the discussion change your thinking? Why? Why not?

6. Put yourself in the shoes of an Abattoir worker in a country where Australia exports live trade. Write a short story about how you feel being in the middle of this debate. 

 

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