Tesco falls short of British poultry commitment

Two years on from Tesco promising to source all of its poultry from the British Isles, little progress seems to have been made, a Poultry World analysis can reveal. While the supermarket quickly and successfully delivered on its promise with regard to fresh poultrymeat, large amounts of its value-added products are still made using foreign chicken. Source all fresh chicken from the UK Tesco made its initial announcement to the NFU conference in 2013 in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, in which