All Meat articles – Page 207
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BEEF: Bigger role for importers in stable British market
Focus shifts to non-EU suppliers as Irish production falls BSE makes the headlines but commercial reality in the UK beef sector is more about increasing tension between suppliers of home-killed product and the overseas processors winning a growing...
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What's the beef with the Frogs?
Sir; Your correspondent "Food Lover" (The Grocer, October 28), had a completely opposite experience to me at SIAL. His steak may have been like shoe leather, but I have to say that mine, also bought at the restaurant in Hall 6 was delightful. In...
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UK consumption of pork and bacon
Renewed consumer fears of BSE are a subtle reminder of why the pigmeat industry and its markets have become so politically contentious in recent years. Food shoppers' switch away from beef, a demand shift becoming dramatic in late 1995, gave a...
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In the city: Has Malton had its bacon? The pig processing ar
As results day at Uniq approaches, the future of Malton, the ball and chain around the food and logistics group's ankles, continues to preoccupy analysts. But precisely what ought to be done with the troubled pig processor remains a bone of...
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SIAL show review: Tivall plans meat free steaks
Israel's Tivall Foods plans to launch a host of products in the UK including what it claims is the first meat free fillet style steak. The new product is made using Tivall's patented fibrous vegetable protein (FVP) and was recently launched in...
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Executive moves: Tulip chief shifts to SQM
One of the Danish bacon industry's best known and respected figures, Tulip International managing director Peter Rasztar, is leaving to join Sweden's largest slaughterhouse group, Swedish Quality Meat. Rasztar will take up his new post at the...
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Brits doing sterling work
BSE spoiled the party for the French government in Paris this week. As another cynical example of Gallic disregard for EU rules kept British beef in locked cabinets at SIAL, Mad Cow Disease became an embarrassing domestic headache, casting an...
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Beef: MLC/MAFF set to tackle Brussels over exports
Day dedication of processing plants could enable more operators to tackle trade Long expected moves aimed at increasing the commercial viability of British beef exports are at last beginning with a formal approach to Brussels by the MLC and MAFF...
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BEEF: Bansback: We must secure that return'
Beef exporting is a sensitive issue for major retailers within the UK because there are fears of the confidence boosting effect conflicting with the need to keep a lid on prices. On the one hand a further relaxation by the European Commission of...
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PIGMEAT: Export subsidy cut a sign of confidence
Sentiment turns against buyers Another reduction in aid for pork exporters agreed at the latest meeting of the EU pig management committee is evidence of official confidence or complacency, according to conflicting assessments by market traders and...
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Bisto looks to meat-free
New Bisto Best brand owner Centura has boosted the range with roast vegetable flavour and a larger jar of roast beef flavour gravy granules. It hopes to cash in on the meat-free market with the new vegetable option (rsp 95p for 200g) approved by...
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Bacon: Dearer Dutch backs warning
While Dutch bacon curers are still shipping around 2,500 tonnes of back bacon a week, there are strong indications that price rises are on the way. The latest Dutch government figures show a 2% drop in clean pig numbers for August, coupled with a...
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Beef: Supermarkets lacking enthusiasm for cattle
Sustained downward pressure on deadweight prices Beef buyers probably have little to fear from the couple of pence per kilo gained by many cattle at auctions early in the week, partly because the market was still sorting itself out after the...
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Writing's on the bacon
The Danish Bacon and Meat Council starts a £750,000 advertising campaign this week. The TV ad, which positions Danish bacon as a quality product, will run for five weeks, backed up by a press campaign. The first execution of the ad shows a close...
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Sales data: Some recovery seen but demand remains patchy
Superficially impressive figures for beef, lamb, burgers and ready meals from TNS Described by MLC analysts as showing "buoyant sales of fresh and frozen beef and lamb", latest household purchase and expenditure data from market researcher Taylor...
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Lang's beef
Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University MAFF's London hq is called Nobel House. A fine bust to Mr Nobel is in the foyer. It amuses me because Nobel of prize fame actually sold explosives and armaments. The hq was once...
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Lang's beef
Tim Lang Professor of Food Policy at Thames Valley University I am a fortunate man. At home in London, we bike or bus a mile to a good little market with specialist food shops alongside. For quick supplies, there's the cornershop or an excellent...
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Lang's beef
Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University Scotland breaking ranks with the government over free care for the elderly is important not just for social policy but also food policy. It's vital that elderly people are well fed....
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Lang's Beef
After lonely years criticising supermarkets, I'm bemused these days to swim with the tide. It is fashionable to knock stores for ripping off Britain. The middle classes, who years ago valued houses by proximity to Sainsbury, now grumble about...
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Lang's beef
Tim Lang Professor of food policy at Thames Valley University I sat in a café the other day in France with some civil servants. We agreed that the fuel blockade had big lessons for government. We debated whether events had been mishandled by...