Chicken in many school dinners imported from China and Thailand

Chicken from China and Thailand served in school dinners as Welsh farmers ‘cut out of the system’

A major investigation by the Countryside Alliance has exposed how councils across Wales are relying on frozen chicken shipped thousands of miles around the world, even in rural areas surrounded by farms and food producers. The data shows that Swansea Council sourced just 2.33% of its school‑meal chicken from the UK. The rest came from the EU and from China, Thailand and Brazil — with 31.96% imported from outside Europe. Carmarthenshire Council a…

Chicken in many school dinners imported from China and Thailand

Roberta Sonnino, professor of sustainable food systems at the University of Surrey and a former Cardiff University professor, called the sourcing of overseas chicken for school canteens "common across the UK", adding it was "really difficult …