http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog A blog about rural life in the UK, our countryside and my country life. It's all here, farming, gardening, wildlife, animals and rural dating. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:41:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-animal-welfare-groups/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-animal-welfare-groups/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:03:45 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=650 Why would I include animal welfare groups in this series of articles about UK food labelling? In other articles we’ve looked at this issue from the side of food producers and food processors, both are obvious players in the UK food labelling saga. However animal welfare groups, like Compassion In World Farming (CIWF) and the [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-animal-welfare-groups/feed/ 6 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-processors/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-processors/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:08:40 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=378 As most of the British public shop in one of the large supermarket chains, the producers and retailers of our food are by and large the same entity. This is the stage in the production of our food where food labelling has a problem. Supermarkets are using the current EU legislation to deliberately mislead us [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-processors/feed/ 8 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-producers/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-producers/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:25:31 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=376 Following on from my post UK food labelling requires change in legislation. The first group of people in the UK food labelling debate are the food producers. The farmers that produce our food are the first line in the field to fork chain and they are battling a number of hurdles. UK food labelling currently [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labelling-food-producers/feed/ 3 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labeling-requires-change-in-legislation/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labeling-requires-change-in-legislation/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:14:53 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=330 An issue which is being increasingly discussed in the UK is that of food labeling. UK food labelling is about empowering consumers to make personal choices but the legislation for food labelling fails us. With this in mind I thought I would start a new section of the blog to provide information about British food [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/uk-food-labeling-requires-change-in-legislation/feed/ 7 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/food-labelling-and-the-recalling-irish-pork/ http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/food-labelling-and-the-recalling-irish-pork/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:13:16 +0000 Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=205 The recall of Irish pork following the discovery of dioxins in the feed of pigs at nine Irish farms has left British retailers in confusion over which products contain Irish pork. The problem is down to the current law about labelling products, meaning pigs reared in Ireland can be transported to England for processing and [...]]]> http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/food-labelling-and-the-recalling-irish-pork/feed/ 0