Relating wine prices to the adjectives used to describe them: an “elegant and smoky” wine is likely to be more expensive than a “pleasing and fruity” one
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Supermarkets are mixing cheaper imported beef with British, says the National Beef Association. Taking advantage of reduced prices for beef from the Republic of Ireland, several retailers are now mixing imported beef with British beef to avoid increasing prices for home-produced beef.
Only Morrisons, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Co-op, Budgens sell 100% British. Tesco’s sales of British beef have dropped from 98% to 90% since 2007, while just 60% of ASDA’s beef is British. Anyone wishing to buy British beef should certainly avoid Netto, which imports all its beef. Despite these varied sourcing policies, surprising results emerge from price comparisons.
Clarissa Dickson Wright rifles through some food packaging and discusses the problem of vague and misleading labelling with Tory spokesmen. All part of the Tories new Honest Food campaign: meat labelled ‘British’ should be born and bred in Britain
The Conservative Party launches a campaign for honest food, demanding that food labelled “British” should be born and bred in Britain. It’s hard to argue with but sadly often not the case in Britain today.
Faced with a jar of chutney or jam, labelled rustically but professionally with the name of the farm shop on whose shelves it sits, one might fondly imagine that it was prepared in the farmhouse kitchen with the best farm and garden produce. The chutney would have made good use of the surplus courgettes, green [...]
The welfare of chickens has received long overdue attention this year. Most prominent has been Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Out! campaign, which may not have succeeded in changing Tesco’s welfare policy (for now) but has evidently shifted some demand from conventional to the higher welfare Freedom Food, free range and organic chicken. Rising demand, rising prices [...]
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