Farmers across the UK are to protest at sites owned by Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons over low prices and unfair treatment.
Over 30 retailer sites will be met with members of protest group, Proud to Farm, tomorrow (13 October) at 7pm, FarmingUK reported.
The group is demanding fairer pay and better support for famers, and is appealing to farmers and members of the public to join them.
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Proud to Farm said via its TikTok page, where it is promoting the protests: “British farmers, British people – it’s time to unite, let’s take on supermarkets, let’s show the government – enough is enough.
“We all want the same Great British produce for the Great British public, only we can make it happen.”
The group has also listed on its social media channels at which supermarkets the protests will be taking place.
Last month, food and farming activists called on the chief executives of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl to change their “all too often imbalanced, short terms and wasteful” buying practices, claiming that farmers are “struggling to survive” and agriculture is “on its knees.”
An initial open letter gained more than 100 signatories including Sustain, The Soil Association, chef Rick Stein, Dragon’s Den star Deborah Meaden, and presenters Julia Bradbury and Jimmy Doherty, and the supporting petition has now gained over 60,000 signatures in just over two weeks.
Vegetable box company Riverford Organic, which launched the campaign, found that 49% of British fruit and veg farmers say it’s likely they will go out of business in the next 12 months, with many blaming supermarkets and their buyers.
