Condescending Supermarket
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
Farm businesses moving from supplying primary food for no premium to supplying food and all our carbon capture brownie points for a little bit extra money is not a premium. It's just a con.
it’s a simple attempt to steal UK farmers carbon sequestration and biodiversity to offset their scope 3 emissions
that will allow them to continue to import cheap food without GFC and run their fridges and vans !
Aided and abetted by majority farmer funded Red Tractor, AHDB and NFU they even expect us to pay for the nose to hang us !
that will allow them to continue to import cheap food without GFC and run their fridges and vans !
Aided and abetted by majority farmer funded Red Tractor, AHDB and NFU they even expect us to pay for the nose to hang us !
Will Blackburn
Member
- Location
- Cheshire
Just so everyone knows, Morrisons have no money, so they are offering something they can't even deliver! Marvellous.
Will Blackburn
Member
- Location
- Cheshire
RT answering a call from the retailers, Ahh Bless, they spent £295,000 answering a call from the retailers, and we know who is to pick up the tab.
they have less than no money actually it seems !
Tells you everything when Ms Throup from Morrisons is the BRC representative on the RT Assured Food Standards Board
you just couldn’t make it up 
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
…and therefore easy to get them to play ball. I’ve always thought that if farmers wanted to make a point we just need to target one supermarket chain at a time for a week by blockading the entrance to their car parks. It would be worth pointing out to the others that they were next.
Swarfmonkey
Member
- Location
- Hampshire
“we have an enormous amount of pressure that comes from interest from customers about environmental footprint”
How did she manage to say that with a straight face? I'd be willing to bet that the average Morrisons customer doesn't even know what Red Tractor stands for, and gives even less of a toss about their "environmental footprint". What their customers care about, is price.
How did she manage to say that with a straight face? I'd be willing to bet that the average Morrisons customer doesn't even know what Red Tractor stands for, and gives even less of a toss about their "environmental footprint". What their customers care about, is price.
Hanspree
Member
- Location
- Lancashire
We have a doctor living next door, he was asking how things were going and we got on about our red tractor inspection.
He asked WHAT’S Red Tractor ???
He’s 50 and a GP and never heard of it. Did have to bite my tongue a bit.
He asked WHAT’S Red Tractor ???
He’s 50 and a GP and never heard of it. Did have to bite my tongue a bit.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Aye, and this is "the better future" we're supposed to be setting our sights on... yay
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
We do not need to block any roads up just fill there car pack with tractors at 8.30/9 oclock in the morning any of the big shops and just block were there lorrys unload
toquark
Member
That’ll be pretty standard. I’d bet good money that the vast majority of non farmers don’t have any idea (or care) about it.
Remains to be seen wether rt are going to answer a call from the farmers!
SilliamWhale
Member
Because she also gets paid by RT
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Everyone supplying a supermarket will have done some kind of audit procedure. I doubt this is going to lead to Morrison paying more for produce it’s probably going to allow them to get un audited produce cheaper.
- Location
- north lincs
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me
- Location
- Yorks
GFC is RT all over again.
Puts extra cost on British producers, but no similar requirements for imports. Competitive disadvantage. Another nail, but this time it's a big one.
Puts extra cost on British producers, but no similar requirements for imports. Competitive disadvantage. Another nail, but this time it's a big one.
- Mandatory 5% set aside.
- Variable rate N (that's most livestock farmers and smaller arable producers having to spend £20k on kit)
- Carbon audit time/cost
- Supermarket/WWF commitments to reduce meat/dairy sales by 20%
- etc.
- Location
- Yorks
I've asked Sophie Throup on Twitter, if Morrisons will accept a different/new assurance scheme (as well as RT), and if they'll recognise/accept any different environmental schemes other than RT's GFC (or is it a monopoly).
No answer so far.
No answer so far.