EBLEX cooking app targets under 25s
Encouraging young people to get cooking with beef and lamb is the idea behind a new app launched by EBLEX this month. It’s designed to help people master five basic meals by the age of 25. SoundBites uses audio to help users memorise any of the 25 recipes while on the move. The audio also plays in short steps, so it doubles as a cook-along guide. With a voiceover from Dave Lamb, who famously narrates the C4 programme Come Dine With...
British Poultry Council is critical of RSPCA duck assurance scheme
The British Poultry Council (BPC) has spoken out against the latest RSPCA duck assurance scheme claiming it is misleading the public in an attempt to promote its own Freedom Food label. In a statement the BPC said: “This is disappointing from a usually respected body like the RSPCA with whom British duck producers have been working closely. “The Duck Assurance Scheme requirements for the provision of water for ducks reared...
MEATUP moves into gear for NEC presentation
The world’s biggest supplier of meat processing equipment and machinery, Marel, is just one of the big names backing MEATUP, the only UK show dedicated entirely to the meat industry. Graeme Rolinson, the UK sales manager said Marel were delighted to continue supporting MEATUP. “We are very pleased to be exhibiting at MEATUP once again, having been at the launch show in 2011. We will have plenty to talk about and see a dedicated...
Vion rejects public sector offer for Hall’s Broxburn plant
Vion has rejected, what has been described as, a significant public sector offer, to save the threatened Hall’s plant in Broxburn. The proposal was developed by the Scottish government and West Lothian Council. Council leader, John McGinty said: We remain totally committed to the aim of securing the best possible outcome for the workforce at Hall’s of Broxburn. It’s extremely disappointing that Vion’s management has rejected the...
Will the Chancellor ‘chicken out?’
Craft butchers, including NFMFT members throughout England and Wales are joining the British Poultry Council and Morrisons supermarkets in the fight against George Osborne’s ‘Chicken tax’. The move by thousands of independent retailers across the country comes on the heels of victory against the Government’s ‘Pasty tax’ which was won with butchers joining bakers across the UK in a protest earlier this year. In the interests to...
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