Meat insight and analysis
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Category Report
Can world food put the bang back in BBQ?
Ahead of summer’s big sporting events, spiced-up, world-inspired BBQ ranges are hitting the aisles to tempt adventure-seeking Brits
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Analysis and Features
Authenticity, healthy, British: hospitality food trends in 2024
Hospitality remains resilient, as new trends set in to define what the typical menu will look like in 2024
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Analysis and Features
Can FSA shake-up make the UK a leader on lab-grown meat?
Plans to speed up regulatory approval could affect lab-grown meat, novel foods and CBD – but some argue the move will come too late
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Analysis and Features
How British are the supermarkets and what’s behind their marketing claims?
Much has been made of online ‘buy British’ sections, but farmers aren’t impressed. A consultation is looking to make claims clearer
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Comment and Opinion
Finally, France moves to ban ‘meaty’ names in plant-based
In three months’ time, France will follow South Africa and Italy in banning the use of ‘meaty’ terminology to describe plant-based products, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment and Opinion
Gross? How bureaucracy is creeping into the UK’s edible insect opportunity
Finally, eating insects is trendy again. Or was it ever?
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Comment and Opinion
Netflix’s Delicious in Dungeon: a warm, funny food anime
A knight’s sister is being slowly digested by a dragon. Not the usual set-up to a food-focused show
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Comment and Opinion
Why we’re backing the burger awards and celebrating UK food
This year is The National Burger Awards’ 10th anniversary - and it’s bigger and better than ever
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Comment and Opinion
Let’s be balanced: AHDB campaign promotes a healthy diet
Let’s Eat Balanced is designed to highlight the nutritional, health, and sustainability benefits of British red meat and dairy as part of a balanced diet, says Phil Maiden, head of media relations and external affairs, AHDB
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Analysis and Features
Forage: the Welsh-focused farm shop & kitchen ‘going from strength to strength’
The business was recognised at last year’s Farm Shop & Deli Retailer Awards for its dedication to Welsh food and drink
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Range Preview
Heart-shaped cheese, pizza and more food for Valentine’s Day 2024
From heart-shaped cheese, burgers, pizza and doughnuts to lingerie and Shake Shack necklaces on Deliveroo
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Range Preview
Hot cross chicken and fried egg panna cotta: Sainsbury’s Easter 2024
Sainsbury’s blends tradition with innovation this Easter from showstoppers to luxury eggs in its new Taste the Difference range
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Comment and Opinion
Retailers shoot themselves in the foot supporting AHDB meat campaign
By signing up to Let’s Eat Balanced, retailers are flouting their own climate commitments and promises to their customers, says Liam Lysaght, campaigner for diets and climate change at Feedback Global
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Category Report
Does Red Tractor need a jump-start?
Meat & poultry producers say they’re buckling under the weight of assurance scheme audits and inefficiency. What can be done?
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Comment and Opinion
Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast: full of middle-class smugness
Guest Jacob Collier plugs his new album and tells underwhelming anecdotes
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Range Preview
Supermarket dine-in deals for a budget Valentine’s Day 2024
Supermarkets are here to help you wine, dine, and save your way through a cost of living crisis Valentine’s Day
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Promotional Feature
How provenance and quality are influencing food and drink purchase decisions
With British consumers increasingly seeking reassurance and transparency on the origins and production of their food and drink, a study in Wales has highlighted how important this has become – and how it translates back down the chain to the country’s producers.
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Comment and Opinion
The Taste of Things: cooking first, love story second in film feast
Tran Anh Hùng’s film opens with 20 minutes of Juliette Binoche at work in a 19th-century kitchen
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Comment and Opinion
Cultivated meat could make the UK a food tech leader
Consumers want it, the planet needs it, and the UK economy will benefit from it, says Rich Dillon, CEO of Ivy Farm
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Profiles and QandAs
My food & drink job: Stuart Cant, meat hygiene inspector, Food Standards Scotland
Meat hygiene inspector Stuart mythbusts abattoir work and advises new starters to go for roles with training opportunities