It does not matter what member of the species you are, your relative age and it does not matter if you are a professional or a complete rank amateur, if you enjoy whiling away your hours in a kitchen and partaking in the pastime of cooking and, or baking, then your own belief of self worth and personal pride means that you will actively choose the best ingredients that will eventual become the taste on your plate.
Just as people who enjoy online gaming at an ethereum casino will select the best one for their requirements, selecting the best ingredients naturally applies to all parts of kitchen creativity and the many varying types of edible deliciousness that can be made from scratch, or at least close to scratch. It is certainly more of a key focus in more family cooking types of scenarios – or in short when choosing the quality of vegetables to make up your Sunday Roast, and then the all important choice of the cut of meat that you will add to your mash that will be dribbling with gravy.
Food and ethical standards are obviously a massive part of the professional kitchen game for restaurants, fast food outlets, chefs right down to the simplest and most basic of cooks, and they all aid the available choice to consumers from Michelin Star level down to specialist outlets. Those choices span options such as gluten free, vegetarian, pescetarian, and even free range and the choice of how an animal lives prior to being euthanised, and even the discussions surrounding how an animal is euthanised.
Over the years this has led to a number of different certification systems to fully inform paying consumers (whether that be in the hospitality scene, or just wandering the aisles as you do your shopping) of what the history of the product is and the Red Tractor scheme is one of the United Kingdom’s biggest when it comes to farm offerings on the supermarket shelves, and sadly for trust levels, they have just had an advert banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over exaggerating the scheme’s environmental benefits and ultimately misleading the public.
Environmental group River Action brought the complaint back in 2023 and the ASA ultimately upheld that the organisation had provided ‘insufficient evidence’ that its farm had in fact been complying with the basic environmental laws needed to substantiate the claims made in the advert. River Action believe that the ruling shows that the scheme has been ‘greenwashing’ the public and have called on supermarkets to ditch the logo.
However, Red Tractor have called the decision ‘fundamentally flawed’ and have pointed out that their scheme is focused on animal welfare, and not environmental standards. For those out there who have relied on the Red Tractor symbol since its introduction they will naturally be disappointed here, however, their claim was ‘From field to store all
our standards are met. When the Red Tractor’s there, your food is farmed with care.’
The mention of ‘our standards’ and not ‘laws’ means that unless their standards are specific to environmental laws, they do actually have a point because the advert complained about does not mention ‘environmental protection’ even once, so even I have issues with the ruling and I can see why it took them two whole years to come to a conclusion.
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