Save British Bacon

British Pig Producers want to be able to supply our wonderful nation with tasty, ethical pork. Our Government is preventing this. Please support our message.

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

📣🐖 pig producers, contractors, stakeholders in the pig sector 🐖📣
Be sure to have YOUR say in the Red Tractor standards consultation, introducing tiers and some amendments to core standards.
If you don’t have your say they can’t listen.
Closes THIS Fri 6th June 🔗link below 👇

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

📣 pig producers

Be sure to have your say on upcoming proposed changes to Red Tractor assurance, different “tiers”, labelling, etc.

No point moaning afterwards if you don’t get involved in the consultation.
It’s not been well publicised so do share👇

https://t.co/cBnGFK9B7P

[Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜 @wheat_daddy]

Yet another very important message Gareth. These protests some of us are organising is more than IHT. Our whole food production system is at stake. We are surrounded by water, it should not be this difficult to safeguard what we eat,

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

He absolutely nails it. He encapsulates the mood of most people in the UK. 🎯

“We end up with economically illiterate people in the government. There are not fit for office. This is our money. And I’m sick of being asked to pay more and more for less and less.”

[Contented Products @contentedpigs]

You can't beat a real life farmer video to show just how well our innovations are helping the people out there doing the graft ❄️🐷🚜
@TheAHDB @NatPigAssoc @thepigsite @SaveGBBacon

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

I’ve been bitterly disappointed by my own engagement with new rural Labour MPs, who seem content to toe their government’s line on this unfolding disaster in the face of all evidence.

‘Labour’s tax raid is the worst crisis I’ve seen in farming’

https://t.co/8mEvpXLVDp

[Victoria Atkins @VictoriaAtkins]

We are forcing a vote on Wednesday to axe the Family Farm Tax and the choice for Labour’s rural MPs is clear: are they going to stand up for their farmers or suck up to Keir Starmer? #AxeTheFamilyFarmTax

https://t.co/zfV27ti850

[Meryl Ward @MerylWardLincs]

Please watch this video. Very like the conversations going on out in our pig pens. It is hard to articulate how deeply upset and let down farmers feel. Trying my best to keep healthy and not to die at the wrong time.

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

Hell yer we do!! 🇬🇧🥓
#readthelabel 👀🧐#backbritishfarming @SaveGBBacon

[Save British Bacon @SaveGBBacon]

British farmers!
Do you feel current labelling regulations put British farmers at a commercial disadvantage?
Retailers taking the mick with misleading labelling?
Have your say 👇 consult closes this evening

https://t.co/jStgBI2zOo

[Save British Bacon @SaveGBBacon]

68T ILLEGAL & DANGEROUS meat seized since 2022 at the border @DefraGovUK
5T in the week leading up to Xmas

This is not just a risk to human health, if #ASF gets in our industry is finished, it’s already on its knees.
And what will it cost the public purse? @Jeremy_Hunt

[Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp]

Total incompetence
If #AfricanSwineFever gets in our already bruised,battered pig industry will be decimated #NoFarmersNoFood
Border control SHOULD be done AT THE BORDER @ProfTimLang 45 mins in
@Port_of_Dover
https://t.co/5lGugWxkxg

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

UK farmers are receiving negligible payments from supermarkets for many of their produce items, yet supermarket food prices continue to rise and supermarkets show record profits. It’s time for the government to act and protect our farmers.

▪️An average block of cheese or loaf of bread produces less than a penny for farmers, and fruit producers do not fare much better, making just 3p from each kilo of apples.

▪️A cereal farmer spends 9.03p to produce a loaf of bread, yet makes just 0.09p in profit, despite a selling price of £1.14. For a loaf sold in an independent bakery, they make 0.5p profit.

▪️A packet of four beefburgers sold in a supermarket, the processor makes 10 times as much profit as the beef farmer, who makes less than a penny per packet. For a 480g pack of mild cheddar costing £2.50 in a supermarket, the dairy farmer’s costs are £1.48, and they make less than a penny in profit.

So while the supermarkets continue to increase food prices on the consumer during a cost of living crisis and show record profits, hardly any of the money we pay for our supermarket food ends up in the hands of the farmers.

Farmers are producing the food on our table but getting very little reward. It’s time for the government to act and stand up for our farmers.

#NoFarmersNoFood
#NoFarmsNoFood

Source: Sustain Report 2022

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

“Furious farmers are now ready to march. Back British Farmers. Now more than ever they require fair reward, political backing and a big hug. If they do protest, toot your horns out of love not anger.”

~ @CSquireMagazine

#NoFarmersNoFood
#NoFarmsNoFood

[Farmers Weekly @FarmersWeekly]

Nailed it @1GarethWynJones. 💪🏽👏🏽

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

𝗡𝗼 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀.
𝗡𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱.
𝗡𝗼 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

#NoFarmsNoFood

[AHDB @TheAHDB]

Hi @ChrisGPackham, it’s a shame you think this is propaganda as we pride ourselves on being evidence-based and have worked closely with the ASA to ensure Let’s Eat Balanced is factual and accurate. 1/6

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

I hope @SteveBarclay asked why there was food rationing & empty supermarket shelves in 2023.

Because it wasn’t that 🇬🇧 farmers weren’t willing & able to fill them. We just can’t do it on negative returns while subsidising supermarket profits.

[Save British Bacon @SaveGBBacon]

@warriorofrad @shinglekicker @FarmersWeekly @JeremyClarkson I think many would agree at this point in time capitalism is not working. If we have any hope of #foodsecurity

[Farmers Weekly @FarmersWeekly]

💷 With British farmers protesting for fairer deals from supermarkets, here’s @JeremyClarkson saying he has ‘absolutely no idea’ how supermarket prices are so low…