Episode Twenty: What’s more sustainable – a meat-based diet or a vegan one?
One of the food industry's most difficult questions is tackled head on by New Food's editorial team.
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One of the food industry's most difficult questions is tackled head on by New Food's editorial team.
The British Meat Processors Association has called on the UK Government to relax immigration rules in the short term, but also to put in place long term solutions to avoid shortages in the future.
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The unfurling carbon dioxide crisis could start proving very costly for the meat industry, with pig farms facing the possibility of culling animals if supplies do not improve.
Nan Jones, Technical Policy Manager at the British Meat Processors Association, discusses the chronic labour shortage the meat sector is facing and asks why the situation has come to this.
The BMPA claims the UK Government has made it “doubly difficult” to recruit new butchers as a result of Brexit and a lack of funding for education courses.
Seafood firms affected by the increased Brexit bureaucracy expressed their frustration at the government for what they see as a lack of support over border delays.
The online supermarket has warned of an increase in substitutions and potential price hikes as COVID-19 and Brexit combine to put food retailers under pressure.
The BMPA says that unless vaccines are distributed among the UK’s food workers, the country’s supermarkets could soon see shortages.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) is worried that without contingency plans, companies will not be able to get their products out of the country come 1 January 2021.
The move to extend VP/MAP shelf life will not compromise food safety, states the FSA, and will mean less meat is thrown away in the UK.
In an article written before today's announcement on VP/MAP from the FSA, David Lindars from the BMPA explains why the UK regulation needed a change...
The £8.7 billion trade in meat, the bulk of which currently flows seamlessly to and from the EU and keeps the just-in-time food supply chain moving, is about to run into a huge brick wall.
Proposed procedures for importing and exporting of goods are “convoluted, expensive and will seriously hamper trade with other countries”, says BMPA.
Unless a number of key issues are urgently addressed, £1.2 billion of annual meat exports will be at risk along with thousands of jobs in the meat and livestock sector, according to BMPA.