LAST NIGHT Footprint attended the launch of a new campaign fronted by pig farmer and TV favourite Jimmy Doherty at Channel 4. Doherty has been recruited by BPEX to front a new campaign to promote Red Tractor pork in 2013, as the price of food linked to grain is expected to rise. [...]
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 ahead of chicken (up [...]
LONDONS 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 a Better Breakfasts guide [...]
FIRST IT was palm oil. Now environmental NGOs have set their sights on a new crop: soya. But pork producers are trying to get one step ahead of the game. In the last 15 years, the production of soya has doubled. [...]
