Schools contest encourages awareness of food origins

A SCHOOLS competition, based on the origins of food, is to be sponsored by the country’s main farm organisation, IFA.

Tipperary Know Your Food is a project aimed at secondary schools nationwide.

Michael Berkery, general secretary of the IFA, who formally launched the project, said: “This initiative encourages young people and the Irish consumer to buy only meat with a Quality Assurance logo, as this is the only way to be certain that the meat they are buying is 100% fully traceable and of top quality,” he said.