Hard work should pay. Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise. |  | Tom Haynes Senior Business Reporter | Supermarkets have been accused of duping shoppers into buying turkeys imported from the EU as a bird flu outbreak wreaks havoc on supply chains.
Suppliers confirmed that several retailers were stocking turkeys from Poland and other EU countries alongside British poultry to combat the shortage.
Campaigners have accused supermarkets of hiding their birds’ origins in the small print on labels, while continuing to boast that they are supporting British farmers.
UK households consume an estimated 10 million turkeys each Christmas, but a bird flu outbreak can quickly upend supply chains.
In the past three months, there have been 70 confirmed cases of bird flu, compared with 81 cases recorded in the 12 months to October 2024. Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi are known to be selling imported turkeys this year to meet the demand. But when myself, Hannah Boland and Eric Williams visited branches, it emerged that identifying imported turkeys was not always easy.
While Asda and Morrisons’ own-brand turkeys are sourced in Britain, both have increased the number of imported third-party turkeys to boost supply.
In a London Morrisons store, the “Bootiful” turkey crown, produced by Bernard Matthews, was stocked alongside poultry advertised as “British whole chicken”.
Only by checking the underside of the package would a shopper learn the poultry was “produced in the UK using turkey from the EU and UK”. On the Morrisons website, the turkey is listed as being from Poland.
The same description could also be found on the underside of a “Cherrywood” farm-produced turkey crown in Asda.
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So is Heathrow Terminal 3, where the first scenes of that film were shot in 2002, still full of festive reunion cheer, two decades on?
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Regular readers of this section will be aware that it takes a vigorously pro-pub stance, and I hope you’ll be doing your duty and visiting your local in the coming days. Pubs have been under terrible financial pressure of late, a situation that has resulted in one of the greatest blows to drinkers of recent years, the normalisation of the £7 pint.
“This is serious,“ wrote Graham Ashen in a letter. “The pub is an essential hub, especially for older, single men, serving as a sanctuary and a bastion against loneliness. These places have been a vital part of social life, in various incarnations, for 2,000 years.”
The question, of course, is what to do. “One way forward,” he suggested, “is the Wetherspoon model, whereby pubs open early and serve breakfast. If they do not change their offer to the public, we risk returning to the time of King Edgar, who in the 10th century limited pubs to one per settlement.”
For Andy Brooks, however, the problem was not a lack of commitment on the part of landlords: “I ran a village pub for 20 years. During that time we saw costs escalate out of all proportion to inflation. My wife and I worked with passion for the community but, ultimately, for the hours we worked, we were earning less than the minimum wage. Despite this, there are still many publicans battling hard to make ends meet. It is not their attitude but the Government’s policy that is closing so many pubs.”
No, if anybody has commitment issues, it’s drinkers, argued Mike Walshaw: “This is the time of year when landlords, especially in the countryside, welcome locals who come in just once a year. Unless these locals support the pub during the rest of the year, there is a good chance that it won’t be there next Christmas.”
One person who won’t have that option is the Chancellor, who has been banned from her local – not for attacking someone with a pool cue, but for presiding over further rises in business rates. I enjoyed Roger Foord’s response to the news: “I think the landlord might like to reconsider and let her in at closing time when he is trying to get his clientele to leave.” Is it last orders for pubs? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up here.
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