A new study has shown that nearly a fifth of foods in England and Wales are labelled 'local' when they shouldn't be. Local Government Regulation inspectors found 'Welsh lamb' from New Zealand, 'Somerset butter' from Scotland and 'Devon ham' from Denmark. Of 558 items tested 18% of claims to be local were "undoubtedly false", while another 14% were unverifiable. LGR chairman, Councillor Paul Bettison, dubbed the results were "extremely worrying".
Luckily for us, we work with great people like Duncan Farrington and Polly and Giles Wilson so that we know exactly where our ingredients are coming from. Buying local is extremely important to us as we always want to serve you food which contains the best, freshest ingredients possible.
You are right of course. I think when you are local you know the people that you buy from. Both Polly & Duncan have seriously high standards and are out there both producing and representing their products.. if your food is local you should be able to expect the same sort of representational standards - not just slap a local label on and expect people to connect with their food !!
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