All Meat articles – Page 153
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NewsNBA seeks beef taskforce to tackle industry’s issues
The National Beef Association is calling for the establishment of a government-backed beef taskforce to "turn the UK industry around". The taskforce would be similar in structure to the pigmeat supply chain task force set up in March...
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Bacon suffers rasher blood to the head
Kevin Bacon is back in vogue, if the ubiquitous Hollywood icon ever really went away. Famously, you can link any movie actor to any other via his movies, in the 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' parlour game. His starring role in...
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NewsAcid Test: Steam Cooked Mackerel Fillets
John West is hoping its new fillets will encourage young and lapsed shoppers to reappraise canned mackerel by providing a credible alternative to chilled offerings.
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NewsPrawn prices set to rise in wake of supply shortages
A "perfect storm" of environmental and economic factors has sent wholesale prawn prices soaring. The Urner Barry shrimp indices key indicators for global prawn prices were 30% higher this week than they were a year ago, standing at...
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Rain makes UK beef and lamb greener
Beef and lamb produced in England often have less environmental impact than global water footprint figures for livestock production suggest, new Eblex research has found.More than 99% of the water used to produce English beef or lamb was...
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NewsHidden halal: an acceptable side to multicultural Britain?
The furore over halal meat could provoke a backlash when the UK has to decide whether to enshrine the slaughter method in law. Alex Beckett reports
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Thrifty shoppers put offal back on menus
Consumption of offal has increased by 26% over the past six years as consumers have sought cheaper yet nutritious alternatives to more expensive meat cuts.UK retail sales of offal reached £67.7m and 23,224 tonnes in August this year...
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NewsAnimal eating animal: is the consumer ready to move on?
Consumers are still incredibly sensitive about the animal protein feed issue. So should the industry be worried as the EC thinks again, asks Julia Glotz
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Asda stumbles in chilled fish as rivals surge ahead
Asda is the only one of the big four retailers to have shown a year-on-year decline in sales of chilled fish over the past year, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel. Value sales of chilled fish at Asda have fallen 0.3% and volumes...
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Second chance for Mattessons meats
Kerry Foods is relaunching Mattessons cooked sliced meats after pulling the range last year because it "wasn't working hard enough."The range, which hits shelves on Monday, will include cooked ham, crumbed ham, honey roast ham (rsp:...
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Peter’s Premier Pies signs 12 more clubs
Pasty and pie-maker Peter's Foods has signed 12 new business partnerships with professional football and rugby clubs across the UK.The stadium contracts, which include Premiership clubs Birmingham City and West Ham United, and rugby...
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Study probes need for a higher-welfare label
A new label for 'higher-welfare' chicken could be on the cards after a poultry industry group commissioned research into whether a new term needs to be created for broilers that fall in between baseline industry standards and organic or...
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Bpex seeks the stars of sausages
Bpex has kicked off its search for the country's 'star sausage' the winner of which will be announced at British Sausage Week on 1-7 November.Retailers, suppliers and manufacturers can nominate up to two 'star' sausages per...
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Novelli cured meats aimed at multiples
Novelli is launching a branded range of cured meat snacks this month.Novelli's Nibbles are miniature versions of saucisson a cured French sausage made from ground pork which will be sold in 90g wooden baskets in three variants: cumin,...
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Producers urge Defra to close clone ID loophole
The National Beef Association is calling for a new code to be added to cattle documentation to ensure cloned animals and their offspring can be identified and traced easily. In the wake of news that 'cloned meat' had entered the UK...
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Nocton lets out its cows following public pressure
Nocton Dairies has bowed to public pressure over its plans to establish a dairy in which most cows would be kept indoors by deciding to allow the majority of cows to graze. The original plan for Nocton Dairies' 8,100-cow herd in...
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Ginsters Balti chicken spices up pasty range
Ginsters is replacing its Ham, Leek & Cheese Cornish pasty with a Chicken Balti variant, and is pledging to keep the nation's love of spicy food in mind for future launches. The Chicken Balti Pasty (rsp: £1.99), which hits shelves...
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RSPCA flagged up cloned meat risks back in 2008
The RSPCA warned Defra of the danger of 'cloned meat' entering the UK food chain as early as March 2008, The Grocer can exclusively reveal. Last week, the Food Standards Agency confirmed meat from the offspring of a cloned animal had...
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How can the industry see off another attack of the clones?
Given Defra was warned in 2008 about products derived from cloned animals, why was action not taken? And what happens now, asks Richard Ford
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Suppliers say cloning is not a food safety issue
The meat industry has hit back at suggestions that the discovery of meat from a cloned animal in the UK could spiral into a crisis of similar magnitude to BSE in the 1990s.Industry representatives said it was vital to make it clear to...