date:Mar 03, 2014
that a concerted effort is being made to increase the amount of British produce sourced, the report said.
However, Tesco said it did not recognise the 8% fall in its purchase of British beef highlighted by the NFU and that all its beef was sourced in either the UK or Ireland, which customers did not differentiate between.
The supermarket added that, as a result of sourcing all its fresh chicken in the UK, it now bought 20,000 tonnes more British chicken a year.