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The rest of my quote: With food manufacturing comprising the largest manufacturing sector in the UK economy we would of course be concerned about any innovation that led to significant reduction in employment although we remain to be convinced about how far it is possible to remove people from food production processes with quality and integrity of the product so vitally important.

With the sector still proving much more resilient in the current economic climate than other parts of the economy, we would also expect the introduction of technology such as this which could only increase profitability, to go hand in hand with a significant increase in the quality of the jobs that remained in the sector. Wages and conditions remain amongst the lowest in the UK with massive numbers of agency and migrant workers employed with little job security and far too many employees exploited and subject to abuse, both verbal and physical.