Soil Association Ask Shoppers for Local Organic Food

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Wednesday, 21 April 2004

The Soil Association has put out a press release today urging organic shoppers to ask their supermarkets for UK food that can be produced here if they find that it is not available.
This is after a Soil Association survey found that Tesco, Asda and Safeway are importing substantial amounts of organic food rather than buying from UK farmers, even when UK supplies are available. In the period covered by the survey, less than a quarter of the organic pork on sale in Asda was from UK farms, in Tesco only half the pork and under half the organic beef was British. Only 13% of Safeway's cauliflowers were home-grown, and in Asda only 19% of onions.