Time to build stronger links in food supply chain

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European Parliament vice-president Mairead McGuinness has issued a wake-up call to the European Commission to work harder at balancing power between producers and retailers and other players in the food supply chain.

Referring to the Irish beef sector, where meat plants moved unilaterally to change carcass specifications and made other demands which reduced prices to farmers, she said: “This type of moving of the goalposts in the middle of the game is unfair at the very least, and borders on the unethical.