Farmers angry reaction to UK supermarkets importing Polish beef during coronavirus crisis

Farmers are angry UK supermarkets are importing Polish beef during the coronavirus crisis.

The likes of Asda and Sainsbury’s are apparently stocking up on the meat while has led to UK beef farmers urging them “not play a part in killing British agriculture”.

The move is believed to be able to meet ‘overwhelming customer demand’ for certain cuts of beef, with Tesco confirming certain product sales had soared 30 per cent due ot panic buying.

After one agricultural law firm tweeted a picture of discounted Polish beef on Sainsbury’s, captioning the picture: ‘Looks like no one wants your c**p Polish beef! We wonder why?’, Nigel Davis Solicitors, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, said: ‘Try selling good home grown British beef – you can’t beat it. Although we’d always recommend people to buy it from a proper butcher and not somewhere that thought to import this!’

The National Beef Association wrote to the major supermarket chains saying it was “unacceptable to us as an organisation, and, we suspect, to the British population, that you would choose to import beef from abroad at this time”.

They questioned the safety of imported food and asked them to confirm whethere the farms complied with the same regulations British farms must adhere to.

In a blistering attack, the letter pointed out that “when the crisis is over and the luxury of choice is handed back to the public, perhaps they will remember which supermarkets backed Britain”.