27th July 2007
Far from being the best local produce available, our public catering supplies are bought according to low price, not quality reports David Richardson, Farmers Weekly.
One of the saddest aspects of Britain's increasing food trade gap (the cash deficit between what we export and what we import, now worsening by at least 10% a year) is the sourcing of public catering supplies by price rather than provenance or quality.
Read the full opinion from David Richardson, Farmers Weekly, 27 July 2007
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