Jaspers Meats win environment award Jaspers of Launceston was crowned winner of the Environmental Initiative of the Year Award, after beating off
UK
giants Samworth brothers and Dunbia Sawley at the first Meat and Poultry Awards organised by the Meat Trades Journal magazine.
The ceremony took place at the
Birmingham
Motorcycle
Museum
when top names from the meat processing sector gathered to hear the result.
The Meat Trades Journal said: "Jaspers has instigated a range of environmental initiatives attracting considerable outside attention. From its award-winning waste-water recycling to its internal environmental processes and tough targets, Jaspers is a prime example of the environmentally responsible processor facing up to the challenges of the modern age.
"The family-owned business' comprehensive approach to tackling the various environmental problems faced by companies in the processing sector marked it out in the field, and it has already been recognised with a number of regional environmental awards for the good work it is carrying out, including being named the overall winner in the Cornwall Sustainability Awards in 2008."
Holly Jasper said: "As a family business we were delighted to be among some of our 
much larger competitors as a finalist for the award. To then win the category and be recognised as an innovator in this field was really something quite spectacular."
How nice to see the Jasper brothers do so well, I remember in the late fifties going to kill bobby calves one Saturday morning for their grandfather Harold in a tiny slaughterhouse that was joined to the family house at
South Petherwin
.
I had to walk the calves down a passage between the garage and the slaughterhouse then knock them, hang them up to bleed and blow them up with compressed air before skinning them.
Years later I met Harold at the cattle markets as he had built a new slaughterhouse where 4 men would kill 300 big heavy longwool lambs and 30 calves every day.
The lambs would go to Peter Tocher on
Smithfield
and the calves to Guttridge and about thirty 50 kilo ewes each day for Darringtons.
I remember Keith and David as small boys going to Week St Mary market on a Saturday with their father Graham, their uncle John Dennis was the auctioneer.
Congratulation’s to you both and your grandfather would have been as proud of you as your father already is.
westernmorningnews.co.uk/ william hayes
Source: newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk
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