Farmers warn food security ‘really under threat’ amid supermarket protest
Farmers in Kent are stationing their tractors in a supermarket car park to protest against cheap imports and “win over” the British public.
Around 20 tractors are parked at Tesco Extra in Whitfield, near Dover, to raise awareness of the threat to food security in the UK, because of the “unfair” treatment of British farmers.
The collective action comes after a group of farmers staged a go-slow protest around the Port of Dover on Friday February 9.
Speaking to FarmingBritain.tv ahead of the protest on Saturday, livestock and potato farmer Jeff Gibson said the single message within their concerns is sustainability.
Mr Gibson said: “British farmers can’t compete with cheap foreign imports and we’re going to be left in a situation where we cannot feed the British public.
“The biggest problem we’re going to face as an industry and the British public in future years is, what happens in the next crisis, what happens in the next Covid, what happens in the next Ukraine war?
“We need to make people realise that food security in this country is really under threat.
Anahita Hossein-Pour | Belfast Telegraph
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