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British Food Supply Debate
10th August 2009
The Government launched debate on the future of food supply and how to secure it going into the future. With changing climate and population growth, the country may be storing up problems with being able to cope with demand.
Food production at home has reduced in recent decades as European legislation and supermarket dominance have changed the face of food supply dramatically within today's global market. A more sustainable balance may be needed for security of our food supply moving forward.
British Food Fortnight Starting Soon
1st September 2008
British Food Fortnight starts this month, running from the 20th September to 5th October in 2008. The fortnight is a celebration of the diverse and delicious range of food that Britain produces.
The British food fortnight aims to promote the push to Buy British produce, with the help of the easily identifiable label on British food in the supermarkets, as well as supporting all manner of related organisations.
Suggestions include shopping in local butchers, greengrocers, farm shops and markets, buying locally brewed beer in the pub, picking or growing your own food and trying to buy food that is currently in season rather than grown abroad and shipped half way round the world.
There is also great support for schools and education, with a special teacher zone including resource packs and loads of ideas for teachers.
Eating In To Beat The Credit Crunch
28th August 2008
Consumers are choosing to eat in more often as they tighten their belts during the credit crunch. In a recent British Food Focus survey of 500 consumers, 20% said that eating out at restaurants was one of the things they were cutting back on.
However, over half of those asked said that they would cut down on the number of times they ate out rather than stop eating out altogether, or that they would eat at less expensive establishments instead.
This is relatively positive news for the British restaurant industry when you combine it with the fact the number of British people eating out regularly has increased by 300 percent since the last big UK recession.
Restaurants have also adapted their menus to work with cheaper ingredients in some cases, and most report reasonably steady business through this period of uncertainty. People have also started to grow their own vegetable seeds and adopt more of the good life style of living.
British Food Prices Increase
14th August 2008
Food price inflation has increased to over 9 percent already in 2008. The British Retail Consortium reported that prices in the shops were up again in July, at the steepest rate since their index began.
British retailers are passing on ever increasing energy and transport costs to their customers, significantly increasing the cost of the average weekly supermarket shop by around 15 percent. Experts told British Food Focus today that the food price increases were likely to continue to increase due to a number of global factors.
One main underlying reason for the increase is demand. With the world's population increasing faster than ever there is an ever increasing demand put on the agricultural and food production to meet it. Particularly affected are grains, and the impact of that extends to animal feed and hence meat and dairy production.
Buying British is one way to help, and securing a productive farming industry in the UK is something that the National Farmers' union is lobbying hard for. Locally produced British food is obviously going to cut down on transportation costs but the overheads of running small holdings and farms keeps prices on the high side.
Too Much British Food Wasted
6th August 2008
Almost one third of the British food we buy is thrown away. During a period of increasing British food prices the government is keen for the British public to waste less of the food we buy.
In a society that is all to quick to throw away rather than mend and make do, the British have certainly been guilty of throwing away left overs and perhaps not planning their meals carefully enough.
This leads to a lot of food waste which is not only bad for the wallet, but generates the highest proportion of methane gasses in rubbish tips, contributing to the greenhouse effect.
Website Love Food Hate Waste quote that some £420 per year is wasted by the average family, throwing away food that could have been eaten. They also suggest an incredible statistic that cutting out that food waste would reduce greenhouse gas emmissions equivalent to taking one in five cars off the road.
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