Food stores fail to buy locally after foot and mouth_2
17 August 2012
Local sourcing is still too low on supermarkets’ agendas, a year after the foot and mouth crisis broke out.
Helen Szamuely, author of the Countryside Alliance report A Threat to the Countryside, which was issued before the outbreak of the disease in February last year, said a focus on local supply chains was in both suppliers’ and retailers’ interests.
“Supermarkets have argued that farmers don’t supply what consumers want, and that they can’t get food locally, but...