COMMENT
It feels good to be getting back to normal as we can at last enjoy a pint and a burger in the garden of our favourite pub. In fact, meat seems to have been on the media menu of late with the BBC’s use of questionable data for their Blue Peter Green Badge campaign. Incredibly, this encouraged children to take a ‘Supersize Plants Pledge’ and replace meat with more ‘climate friendly’ plant-based dishes. We welcomed the strong collective response of AHDB, QMS and HCC, correcting the data and defending our hard- working members of the meat industry. This resulted in widespread media coverage and forced the BBC to change the information on their website.
CONTACT
Corinne Stuart - Editor-in-Chief
National Craft Butchers has long had a close collaboration with Scottish Craft Butchers, and you’ll see a lot more of us coming together to jointly represent independent craft butchers north and south of the border. If you feel there’s a burning issue that needs our attention, then please get in touch. The BBC’s climb down is proof positive that when we work together we can combat what, in some quarters of the media, appears to be an anti-meat agenda.
This month in Craft Butcher we’ve turned our attention to something that is everyone’s problem – packaging waste.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Corinne Stuart
Corinne@nationalcraftbutchers.co.uk
EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES Tina Mulholland
tina@tlm-marketing.com
ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES Claire Holland
trumpetdm@gmail.com
The scale of this problem is simply mind- blowing. Writing the article caused us to reflect on our own responsibilities. That’s why you’ll notice that this issue arrived in a new home compostable wrapper, instead of the difficult to recycle polythene wrapper we have used to date.
Finally, on an administrative note, our next Annual General Meeting will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 29 June and we hope you’ll be able to find time to attend. Details on how to join will be published soon. We’d like to share our plans with you and hear what you have to say about the future of your Federation, so please join us.
MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES Eleanor O’Brien
info@nationalcraftbutchers.co.uk Tel: 01892 541412
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3 ABATTOIR SECTOR UPDATE 5 WE EAT BALANCED CAMPAIGN REVIEW 7 RICHARD STEVENSON TECHNICAL ADVICE PAGE SPOTLIGHT ON PLASTIC PACKAGING
15 THE BBQ MAG – MEMBER OFFER 16 BBQ SEASON 2021 – CONSUMER INSIGHT
17 BBQ RECIPE INSPIRATION 18 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TAX CREDIT 19 PAUL HOBBS FOOD SAFETY ADVICE 22 NATIONAL PICNIC WEEK OPPORTUNITIES
23 LEARNINGS FROM THE FARM RETAIL CONFERENCE
NEW LABELLING LAWS PROPOSED FOR NONSTUN 25 MEAT
NEW RESEARCH SHOWS SEAWEED REDUCES CARBON 25 EMISSIONS FROM CATTLE
JACK MORRIS AND THE BURY BLACK PUDDING 26 COMPANY 27 EXECUTIVE PROFILE – WILLIAM LLOYD WILLIAMS MBE
29 BUTCHERS BLOG – DAVID GIGLI
NEW LEADERS FOR BUTCHERY APPRENTICESHIP 30 EMPLOYER GROUP 31 DIARY DATES
31 MARKET PRICING
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