Off the back of this year’s EPIC Conference, I’ve been thinking about what ‘poultry in a sustainable supply chain’ really means in practice. In a world facing environmental catastrophe and big inequalities across the board, with the scaffolding of civic space eroding,...
With the International Poultry Council reiterating its commitment to tackling AMR in the poultry meat industry at its second semester meeting in Chicago, BPC have today endorsed IPC’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Principles. Setting out the efforts of our BPC Antibiotic...
When did it become too much to ask of your own Government to prioritise national food security by protecting the interests of domestic production? Whilst the resilience of British poultry is undoubtedly a valuable quality, it is not one that should solely define our...
Fifth round of delays to the implementation of controls poses food safety and biosecurity risk, undercuts domestic production, and amplifies the food inflation challenge. In contrast to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s commitment that farmers and food producers will “have...
Level the playing field between importers and exporters for affordable and accessible food Plans to delay food import controls for a fifth time, as reported in the Financial Times, will undercut domestic production with cheap imports and push up UK food prices, BPC...
How does the development our industry ensure good outcomes for consumers and communities alike? A combination of a declining workforce and productivity stasis is lethal, not least with a cost of production crisis on our hands. There is no shying away from a drop in...
Echoing calls for an SPS agreement, “the longer the issues with EU trade go on, the harder it will be to address them,” warns BPC Chief Executive. Ongoing asymmetry in UK-EU trade threatens to push up food prices in the UK, BPC Chief Executive, Richard Griffiths, told...
So we return to the dog-whistle politics of immigration and skills. Our Home Secretary has said that our economic growth should be powered by 'high skilled jobs', and that more UK workers must train to do the supposed low skill jobs so that we 'don't forget how to do...
BPC Chief Executive urges Prime Minister to keep up momentum to prioritise a sustainable food system for all. A new pack of measures unveiled today supporting British farmers and producers “must invoke real and tangible change,” says BPC Chief Executive, Richard...
Instead of trying to match the cost of production with what people can afford, we should be working to ensure everyone can afford food full stop. The drive to keep food affordable under exceptional market conditions where the cost of production is not being returned...
Cost of production is soaring and not being recovered in the marketplace, thereby jeopardising long-term UK security, business viability, and economic growth. The rising cost of energy, feed, labour, fuel, water, trade, transport, packaging, and red-tape, with the...
To think about change, we have to change the way we think It is timely that I should be attending an event looking into food, environmental sustainability, and public health this week. Coincidentally I have spent the past few weeks perplexed as to how I join the dots...