date:Dec 05, 2012
h production costs. Lower cost producers from Brazil to Thailand have the advantage of lower feed and labour costs. Even the Netherlands and Germany have greater economies of scale. And the UK's pig producers have long argued that our higher welfare standards have put us at a cost disadvantage with the rest of the EU.
It is often said that British consumers want to support UK producers. But, when food prices are rising faster than their incomes, they are surely less likely to want to pay more f