Is the EU agriculture directorate proposing compulsory “place of farming” labelling for agricultural products? It sounds too good to be true, and it is. All that’s proposed is an indication of EU or non-EU origin. Even that’s almost unanimously opposed by food processors.
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
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 [...]
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s revealing and disturbing Our Daily Bread goes behind the scenes of food industry, revealing the story of food from hatchery to abattoir
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