date:Jul 21, 2014
The UKs largest supermarket claimed it sells more British lamb than any other retailer when asked to respond to the disappointment expressed by the National Farmers Union this week.
Photographs of New Zealand lamb on special offer at Tesco stores were circulated on Twitter, a week after NFU officials wrote to all the major supermarket chains on behalf of England and Wales 47,000 sheep farmers to remind them that grass-fed British spring lamb is now in peak season and is available in abundance.