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Vale of Mowbray has added three new flavours to its pork pie line-up.
The Pork & Apple and Pork, Cheese & Pickle flavours are available in ‘mini’ pack formats priced at £2 per six-pack. A medium-sized Pork & Caramelised Onion Pie featuring a lattice lid has also been launched and costs £2.
The NPD comes as the pie maker unveils a modern yet established new look after undergoing the biggest rebrand in the company’s 200-year history. The branding and packaging design, created by Leeds-based Chilli, uses a 1920s art-deco-style font and provides a nod to when pie production began at the Vale of Mowbray factory in 1928, while the dry-stone wall plays on the brand’s Yorkshire heritage.
New campaign urges British consumers to buy range of egg sizes to support hen welfare Ref:RH210321147 Rob Haining / The Scottish Farmer HUNDREDS OF thousands of British consumers have been told to end their obsession with buying large eggs and shop for mixed weight and medium instead, in order to support hen welfare. More than 13 billion eggs are eaten in Britain every year, but research has revealed that shoppers prefer to buy large or very large eggs rather than medium or mixed weight boxes, despite the fact hens naturally lay a range of egg sizes. A free range hen will typically lay 55% large or very large eggs and 45% medium, smalls and second quality eggs.
Consumers urged to eat a wider range of egg sizes
28 April 2021 |
A new collaboration is urging the public to buy a wider range of egg sizes
Consumers are being urged to buy a variety of egg sizes rather than always opting for large, as this in turn benefits the welfare of the hens laying them.
The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) and British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) have come together to raise awareness of the issue.
The BHWT explained that consumers had little or no idea that eating a range of egg sizes benefited hen welfare.
It added that even making a small change to shopping habits and recipes would make a big impact.
You ve heard of pampered pooches, now make way for chickens who turn their beaks up at run-of-the-mill hen houses. Chicken ownership boomed in lockdown as people took on new hobbies, with many trying to recreate the 70s sitcom about self-sufficiency, The Good Life, in their own back gardens.
Hen re-homing charities report soaring demand for birds and, while most are housed in simple coops, a lucky few live in far grander surroundings. SADIE NICHOLAS meets the fowl who d get in a flap if they had to live in anything less than these well feathered nests.
Lives of luxury for feathered friends