Chefs and caterers are being urged to serve more British food by the NFU as it battles to reverse the decline in the nation’s food self-sufficiency, which has fallen to 62 per cent.
NFU vice president Adam Quinney told an audience of 250 foodservice professionals at the Craft Guild of Chefs Universal Cookery and Food Festival in Hampshire on Wednesdaythey are in prime position to support British farming.
“You buy £10 billion worth of food every year and some of that is British. But there are definitely opportunities for that to increase and get more British food on more British plates,” said Quinney.
“I don’t want farming to go the same way as so many other industries in this country. Agriculture is one of the few remaining great British institutions that contributes to our landscape, environment, economy, culture and tourism.”
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