My beef with roast pork

A quick meal for many is a roast pork sandwich and a soft drink and for some a cold beer. Cutters as we know are is usually roast pork.

A “quarter” of roast pork is in the vicinity of $30 ($120 a pound).

My beef is with the price. If it is local pork I can understand but with the revelation in the House and from what we know, a pound of imported pork costs around $9. Now tell me, is the price of roast pork fair to the consumer? Simply put, these roast pork vendors are buying cheap and selling very expensive.

Is there some kind of moral or ethical value here or is business all about making the most money — profit maximisation? What about the removal of VAT on certain items by the PP government? Wasn’t that meant to lower prices? What happened to that glorious expectation? Creative ways were found to work around that. Are we at the mercy of businesses?

Sahadeo Ragoonanan via email