All Meat articles – Page 163
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Price of lamb expected to stabilise after scare
Forecasts of shortage, and then a glut with plummeting prices, have been downgraded to limited disruption as the foot and mouth outbreak appeared to come under control this week. Turmoil in the British lamb market as 1.4m carcasses were due for...
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Talking shop - Gerard Keenan
All this concern over flatulent livestock and global warming is deeply frustrating, says Gerard Keenan, chairman of animal nutritionist Keenan. The solution is already here. It's been a bad couple of weeks for cattle. They have received extremely...
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Poultry farmers warn of looming shortages
British poultry bosses have warned of a shortage of chicken and turkey unless they receive much-needed price rises from the supermarkets. Poultry farmers said that, like the pig sector, they were suffering from a "catastrophic" rise in global wheat...
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Irish Republic revs up EU beef export drive
Irish beef producers are launching their biggest-ever new sales and marketing push this autumn in a bid to increase exports to the UK and Europe. The campaign, which will run until Christmas, was announced this week by agriculture minister Mary...
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Welfare-friendly foie gras arrives
Selfridges will be the first London food hall to stock 'welfare friendly' foie gras. The luxury liver pâté is produced in Spain, where the birds naturally gorge themselves prior to winter migration. Ewan Venters, director of food and catering at...
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A 'new era dawns' for meat hygiene regime
The Meat Hygiene Service has survived intact from an FSA review of how best to deliver safe, hygienic meat in abattoirs and processors. The government-run service will be streamlined to cut total costs, but it will not be disbanded, the...
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Waitrose ditches farrowing crates
Waitrose has become the first major UK retailer to stop using farrowing crates in the production of all its own-label pork products. It has moved all the Danish pig farmers supplying its bacon and lardons onto an outdoor farrowing system....
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insight - pork consumers
People consumed 962 million pork meals last year Men consume 43% of all pork cuts More than a quarter of pork cuts are eaten on a Sunday Pork is most commonly roasted (45% of meals) Fresh pork sales grew 3.9% to £665m last year A healthy but...
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Boycott fails to dent sales of halal meat
Calls for Muslims to boycott halal meat during weekends in July appear to have fallen on deaf ears. The Grocer uncovered news in June of the boycott§ to force abattoirs to adopt stricter standards and end mechanical slaughtering on halal...
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Makro pulls foie gras in face of Viva pressure
Controversial delicacy foie gras is disappearing from the shelves of Britain's grocery retailers after wholesaler Makro suspended sales this week.It is the latest in a growing list of grocery giants to stop buying the French luxury pâté,...
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In Brief: New leadership; Dairy UK elections; Sandell heads south; An Irish move; O'Sullivan's beef
New leadership Allan Burns, former executive director of Diageo Scotland and global procurement director for Diageo worldwide, has been appointed chairman of Scotland Food and Drink. The newly created organisation aims to boost the Scottish grocery...
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Barr: stores reneging on UK meat pledges
The Meat & Livestock Commission has used its last-ever summer barbecue event in Westminster to accuse supermarkets of backsliding on their commitment to British meat.
Peter Barr, MLC president, told MPs and industry figures that retailers… -
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Aldi offers ostrich steak for barbecue
Aldi is selling frozen ostrich steak in its UK stores as part of its Endless Summer barbecue range.The German discounter is promoting ostrich as an alternative to chicken, on the strength of its low-fat content. It claims a 100g serving...
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Drop marks and focus on tractor, NFU urges
Pork, lamb and sheep producers are being told to drop investment in individual quality marks and back the Red Tractor instead.The mark already appears on £5.5bn worth of food each year, but the NFU wants to boost that by uniting industry...
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Veal export trade boosts calf values
The controversial export of live calves has been resumed, with 75,000 calves shipped to European veal finishers last year. The trade, a by-product of beef exports, has helped boost average calf values from £20 a head at the start of 2006...
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Wet summer boosts sales of winter cuts
The unseasonably bad weather has sent retail sales of "winter" beef cuts soaring.Demand for 'big volume' cuts such as roasting joints and mince has risen significantly over the past few months compared with last year. In the four...
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Walkers recalls ready salted crisps
Walkers has recalled a batch of ready salted crisps because of a packaging error.A limited number of Walkers 6-pack ready salted crisps had been packed with smoky bacon flavour crisps, making them unsuitable for people with a soya or lactose...
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Wheat shortages hit poultry prices
A global shortage of wheat is forcing the price of poultry up, producers have warned.South west poultry producer Lloyd Maunder predicted that the retail price of a whole 1.5kg corn-fed chicken would go up by 20p - equivalent to 4% - as...
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Waitrose's red meat to get welfare mark
Waitrose is preparing to roll out its high-welfare Select Farm quality mark on all its fresh red meat.The retailer plans to launch packaging featuring the Select Farm logo for fresh pork, lamb and beef in the autumn. The products will...
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Sainsbury's under fire for lamb pricing policy
Sainsbury's has come under attack for vaunting the provenance of its regional lamb while selling it at the same price as standard meat. Following the launch of West Country lamb in south west stores earlier this year, it has...