If I did I'll have primed them to give you the right answer won't I? So better go yourself and see what they think, then you'll either see they agree with me or not.
As I said alan has been my butcher for several years and I speak to him regularly. the fact he is on some market thing (Which I didn't know) is not relevant to it. you must have goggled him and really looked to discover that. I think that is really sad.
Stop kicking the shit and go and ask for yourself like you said you were going to. And leave it until you fins out what they say, or are you welded to your keyboard?