Scottish livestock welfare highlighted in QMS and Scottish SPCA partnership
The priority the Scottish red meat industry places on animal welfare is being highlighted by the establishment of a formal partnership between Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and the Scottish SPCA, Scotland’s leading animal welfare charity. The aim of the new partnership is to take the existing much-valued working relationship between the two organisations to a new level. It will build on the existing collaboration and trust between the...
Kate Adie OBE to headline next ‘Meat Business Women’ networking forum
Award winning journalist and author, Kate Adie OBE, will address the second Meat Business Women networking seminar on 30th September at Ironmongers’ Hall in London. Adie, who is most famous for her role as BBC’s chief news correspondent, is ideally placed to give an insight into how she has forged inroads for women working in the media and pioneered reporting from the frontlines for BBC. She is also the long-serving presenter of Radio...
HCC launches new website promoting locally produced pork products
A new website has been launched by HCC to encourage consumers to eat high quality, locally produced pork products. Porc.Wales, created by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), will showcase the finest pig farmers and premier porcine producers from around the country and includes a directory of regional stockists. It will link consumers directly with pork producers and butchers – enabling them to source pork produce...
Karro Food Group lands deal to supply pork to US restaurant chain Chipotle
Karro Food Group has recently landed the contract for the American restaurant chain, Chipotle Mexican Grill, which had stopped serving carnitas in many of its restaurants because its animal welfare auditors found one of its pork suppliers to be violating some of its core animal welfare standards. Chipotle suspended all purchases from the supplier that meant it was unable to supply about one-third of its restaurants with carnitas....
AHDB Beef and Lamb represented at Great British Food and Farming Plan
80 leading representatives from the UK food and farming industry, including CEO of AHDB, Jane King and AHDB Beef and Lamb chairman, Stuart Roberts, attended a meeting last week with environment secretary, Elizabeth Truss. The aim is to develop a long-term plan for the future of food and farming in the UK. The industry-led 25-year plan will up the country’s ambitions for food and farming, setting out how it can grow more, buy more and...
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