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  • Consumer Purchases of "Ethical" Foods - Some Data from DEFRA

    It is difficult to get a factual grip on the difference between what consumers say they will do and what they actually do when buying food. DEFRA has had a stab at this as part of their effort to build a sustainable food chain. Their research confirms that consumers are interested in the issues surrounding...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, May 8 2011

  • Trends at Sainsbury - Justin King Speaks of Consumers, Farmers and Buying British

    The conference and lecture season is in full swing and a few days ago Justin King, Chief Executive of Sainsbury spoke at the Royal Agriculture College's annual Bledisloe lecture. Smooth shaven, hair slicked back, immaculately suited and lightly tanned even in November, King could not have presented...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Nov 17 2008

  • Consumers,Clones and Concerns

    The Food Standards Agency research findings that consumers do not support animal cloning for food have been widely reported, (apart from in the farming press, bizarrely), and both the findings themselves and consumer reactions to the reports merit pause for thought. The research is thorough, and the...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Jun 9 2008

  • Whither Ethical Purchasing?

    One of the questions of the day is whether rising food prices and a financially squeezed consumer will result in ethical purchase considerations taking second place to price. Not so far said the Institute of Grocery Distribution yesterday. Certainly the recent flight to free range/organic chicken seems...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Mar 7 2008

  • Consumers, Chickens and Changing the World

    Good heavens! Sales of free range chickens increased by 35% last month whereas standard sales dropped by 7%.(TNS data reported in yesterday's Independent). Free range sales could have been higher except the shelves were empty because supermarkets could not keep up with demand. The catalyst was programmes...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 29 2008

  • Cloned Food

    I'm surprised there's been so little fuss in the UK about cloned food. On 11th January the European Food Standards Authority (Efsa) announced its conclusion that products from cloned pigs and cattle are unlikely to be a threat to food safety or the environment but that products should be labelled...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 1 2008
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