BPEX

  • Putting the British into breakfast

    LONDON’S RESTAURANTS, caterers and hotels are being challenged to provide better breakfasts that are good for diners, farmers, farm animals and the environment.     Ethical Eats, a network of 1,000 London caterers determined to improve their sustainability, has published… Read More

  • Red Tractor telling porkies?

    A SERIES OF adverts promoting British pork as “high welfare” have been banned for being misleading.   The adverts, commissioned by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), read: “PORK NOT PORKIES – RED TRACTOR PORK IS HIGH WELFARE PORK”.… Read More

  • Caterers promise to sell only ‘legal’ pork

    BRITAIN’S FOUR major food organisations have pledged to the Government that they will not sell pork and pork products from illegal pig farms when the European partial stalls ban is introduced on January 1 next year.   The British Retail… Read More

  • Plans for EU sow stall ban “in disarray”

    PLANS FOR a partial ban on sow stalls from 1 January 2013 are in disarray. With 17 countries unlikely to be ready for the ban, pig production could fall and prices could go up “by at least 10%”.   Sow… Read More

  • Pork profits from Olympics

    PORK AND pork products have been boosted thanks to the London 2012 Olympics.     Figures from Kantar Worldpanel, produced for BPEX, show sales were up 8% in value and 9% in volume during the Games period.   This was… Read More