Meat insight and analysis – Page 11
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Feature Synopsis
Focus on Savoury Pastries and Meat Snacks: 20 November
Will consumer enthusiasm for the category hold up as health concerns loom larger?
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Promotional Feature
Why beef sustainability is increasingly important to UK shoppers
Sustainability is increasingly influencing shoppers’ food and drink buying choices, including UK beef. Bord Bia (The Irish Food Board) recently undertook a comprehensive study to gain insight on how much this influences their purchasing decisions.
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Category Report
Less but better meat? Category report 2021
Premium cuts have seen strong growth as Brits are urged to curb their meat consumption. So are buying habits really changing?
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Analysis and Features
How can the meat sector attract and train more British workers?
Boris Johnson is doubling down on his stance industry should stop ‘relying on cheap foreign labour’. So how can the sectors move forward?
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Comment and Opinion
Boris Johnson is alienating industry with casual disregard – next he’ll be alienating voters
The pig sector has reacted with fury over the PM’s dismissal of the growing backlog of pigs on farms caused by the labour crisis
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Range Preview
Range preview: Farmison Christmas food 2021
Variety is not something Farmison is struggling with this year. The specialist butcher has developed plenty of options for distinguished palettes, featuring a host of meat products not usually considered for inclusion on the Christmas dinner table. It has hopped onto trends in order to make festive food a thoroughly ...
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Comment and Opinion
Why the US lifting its UK lamb ban isn’t as exciting as its move on beef
Americans don’t eat much lamb or mutton, while haggis is still off the menu
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Comment and Opinion
The food industry can’t rely on outside help to solve CO2 crisis
It’s becoming clear the UK’s CO2 gas supply chain remains in a parlous state, and very few lessons appear to have been learnt from the last crisis
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Comment and Opinion
Together: mildly mawkish, but Jamie Oliver delivers as usual on the food front
Jamie promised “epic feasts” suitable for sharing – with a focus on early prep so cooks can spend more time with guests
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Comment and Opinion
We’re at peak meat. Which supermarket will bite the bullet and pledge to sell less?
Supermarkets cannot sell meat at the volumes they do without being involved in deforestation, says Elena Polisano, Greenpeace UK senior campaigner
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Analysis and Features
Cyberattack shutdown: what happened at Brazilian meat supplier JBS
The more than $200m annual IT spend and 850-strong global IT team at JBS counted for little
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Analysis and Features
How can supermarkets lure shoppers back to ‘uninspiring’ meat aisles?
So-called ‘unconscious reducers’ are buying less meat due to lack of inspiration in the aisles. How can supermarkets get them more engaged?
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Comment and Opinion
Can an animal welfare argument jolt the government into tackling the labour crisis?
Farmers and the NPA have warned that culls may soon be necessary unless the Home Office takes action
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Analysis and Features
Cut: how Farmison & Co is bringing high-end luxury to the butcher’s
Tiffany’s was the unlikely inspiration behind Cut, Farmison’s first bricks & mortar store. The result is a luxury – yet accessible – shopping experience that combines online and offline
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Comment and Opinion
AHDB’s ad victory is a big win for British meat and dairy
Switching to a 100% plant-based diet won’t necessarily bring the benefits to health and the environment we crave
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Comment and Opinion
A meat tax isn’t reasonable now, but the conversation is far from over
A tax on meat would be regressive, with the price of alternatives as it is. But technology could see that change
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Comment and Opinion
Will the government pay any attention to Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy report?
While there will be lots of soul searching in the industry about the NFS recommendations, it’s the government’s response that’s key
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Analysis and Features
Five strange yet nutritious ‘novel foods’ attracting attention from regulators
Some call them innovative. Others call them ‘Frankenfoods’
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Analysis and Features
What Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy means for food businesses
Dimbleby is urging ministers to ‘break the cycle’ of bad diet with a raft of drastic new taxes - but critics are questioning the sense
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Comment and Opinion
Dimbleby’s report could signal beginning of long-term change in food and drink
Not all of Dimbleby’s food strategy is practical, but it will change the way government thinks