KFC chicken salads are near the top of the list of the most salty offerings on the high street, according to a study by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).

McDonald’s UK has appointed its first female CEO in Jill McDonald, replacing Steve Easterbrook who has become the company’s executive vice-president and global chief brand officer.

Campaigning celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall will be handing out the Organic Food Awards at the annual Soil Association Organic Food Festival in Bristol, on Saturday 11 September.

Anthony Demetre, Francesco Mazzei and Cyrus Todiwala are among the chefs cooking dishes to promote Welsh Lamb at The Butcher in Leadenhall Market.

Scotland is to host its first venison festival this October as part of a tourism drive in Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms.

Low prices are threatening the long term survival of UK beef production, farmers have warned. Farming union bosses from across the UK are now calling for an urgent upswing in the beef price.

People in Leicester consumed more pies per head of population than anywhere else in Britain in the past year, according to Tesco.

A trading standards investigation has found that lamb is being passed off as Welsh by 50% of eating out venues in North Wales.

Halal meat is being taken off the menu at Domino’s Pizza, due to a commercial decision emanating from an 18-month trial.

Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant has once again come out on top for the third year in a row.

German processor TönniesFleisch is taking a pop at cracking the UK snack market with the launch of an innovative meat product.

The hunt for the UK’s star sausage will once more get underway during this year’s British Sausage Week. Sausage producers, butchers, farm shops and caterers are all in with a chance of taking the title.

Members of the Parliament are being urged to go veggie every Monday with the launch of a campaign by the UK’s only Green MP.

Bernard Matthews MD Jeff Halliwell is to leave his post on Friday (13 August) following a 14-month tenure in the position.

A new quality scheme and brand is hoping to add momentum to sales of meat from Wales. The Anglesey Grazing Animal Partnership (AGAP) launched its quality assurance scheme at the island’s county show today (Weds) which will be used to market the region’s meat on ethical grounds.

The consumer will ultimately decide whether there is a future for cloned meat and dairy in the food supply chain, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU).

Global restaurant chain Burger King is being ordered to remove an advert from UK television screens by advertising watchdogs for misleading consumers.

Bpex has announced its dates for British Sausage Week, running from 1-7 November.

Beef and lamb bosses are hoping for success with the relaunch of a website aimed at becoming an essential tool for industry.

Animal charity the RSPCA has opened entries for its 2010 'Good Business' nominations.

Key changes which now affect whether overseas butchers and meat processors can work in the UK have been implemented.

An international restaurant chain famed for its burgers has agreed to take part in Sir Paul McCartney’s Meat-Free Monday (MFM) campaign, despite still selling meat on the designated day.

Beef and sheep producers are hoping for a repeat of England's last World Cup performance – but not on the pitch.

Duck supplier Cherry Valley is to become the approved supplier to contract caterer Compass Group serving meat to Michelin starred restaurants.

A meat supplier is backing the growing trend for shredded meats across retail and foodservice with the launch of a new range of products.

McDonald’s has held its inaugural Open Farm visit to raise awareness of the role farms will play in providing produce for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Meat Trades Journal would like to say thank you to its readers for ensuring it remains the highest* ABC audited circulated title for news and information on the UK meat market.

Asda Scotland is to increase its range of Rankin Selection pies, courtesy of Northern Irish manufacturer Millar Savoury Foods, in 30 of its stores.

A campaign educating the UK market on Italian cured meats is to launch this summer in a collaboration between the Italian Trade Commission and the Institute for the Promotion of Italian Deli Meats.

A catering butchery operation has announced a £200,000 expansion of its north Yorkshire operations. R&J Catering Butchers will effectively double the size of its meat production facilities, the company said.

A central halal hub supplying the demand for meat in the UK is now in full trading, with further expansion plans to supply the European mainland.

The best pie in Britain has been revealed as a Waitrose pork, chicken and ham pie, created by Walkers Charnwood Bakery.

Foodservice supplier Brakes Group has bought out catering butcher Browns Food Service to increase its customer base and strengthen specialist meat availability.

As many as four in 10 consumers worry about animal welfare as their number one food concern, due to campaigns by celebrity chefs, research from Mintel has revealed.

A British turkey campaign, launching this May, has the potenetial to convert more than 30m consumers to the white meat over the next three years.

Conservative Caroline Spelman has become the new Secretary of State for Defra as a new government has taken shape, involving a Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition.

The number of top-end vegetarian restaurants in the UK has more than doubled since 2007, according to the Vegetarian Guides.

A number of leading chefs have been give food for thought on master butchery, after catering butcher Aubrey Allen opened its doors to its Coventry meat plant recently.

Turkey bosses have announced the 14th annual British Turkey Awards are now open for entries. With 10 categories available, the event, organised by the British Turkey Federation (BTF), will give manufacturers a chance to showcase the way they are responding to ever-changing retailer demands and consumer needs.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has signalled out McDonald's for the quality of some of its raw materials and a new, greener approach.

Rectory Foods is making its debut in the retail sector with the launch of a range of frozen chicken products under its Hot Chicken Company (HCC) brand.

Savoury pastry brand Ginsters is launching its biggest ever on-pack promotion at the end of April, in celebration of the summer.

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has teamed up with Miss Scotland and UK winner Katharine Brown to be the face of its new healthy diet schools campaign.

A leading foodservice operator is hoping for success with the launch of a new branded range of matured beef cuts. Prime Meats, the speciality butcher operation for Brakes, has launched Birchstead 21 Day Matured Beef, a premium range of traditional joints and primal cuts, as well as individually and multiple skin-packed steaks.

KFC has come out in strong defence of its halal chicken products after meeting a delegation from the Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM).

The often claimed need to double food production by 2050 has been branded a "big fat lie" by organic bosses. The Soil Association has accused government scientists, UN leaders, Monsanto and the National Farmers' Union of misleading consumers with the claims for the need to increase food production.

Organic meat pie firm Pipers Farm made it’s debut at Lord’s Cricket Ground this month, where it will be sold to fans throughout the cricket season.

A warning has gone out to caterers across the Midlands after Trading Standards chiefs found that 40% of lamb tested contained other meats.

Biltong laced with chilli has been crowned overall winner in a competition to find the best British version of the South African meat snack, organised by The South African newspaper.

Welsh lamb from Randall Parker Foods’ abattoir near Llanidloes will be used in Singapore's FHA Culinary Challenge by the team from Wales.

International catering butcher Nice To Meat has won a competition to develop a new burger to serve in all Hilton Hotels across Europe.

Butchers and farm shops are being offered an exclusive deal on Farm Fresh Ducks this Easter weekend from duck supplier Cherry Valley.

A game industry representative has claimed that class perceptions over game meat are falling thanks to television exposure of the specialist food product.

Freedom Food has seen a wide range of livestock rearers, foodservice businesses and butchers at its Food & Drink Expo stand this year, according to its consumer marketing manager.

A sausage producer is hoping to tap into the ethnic market with the launch of a new brand of unique sausages - Mr Singh's Bangras.

A Yorkshire meat snacks firm has found its been rapidly growing year on year and expanding into new markets such as forecourt garages, it’s co-founder has said.

The foodservice need to put in better incentives and training for its staff to improve hygiene in food preparation areas, a top food safety consultant has advised.

Poultry supplier Rectory Foods has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Acura Foods, which will extend Rectory’s fresh and frozen pork and beef range.

A product by Gloucestershire-based The Country Butcher was named Bpex's overall best bacon cure for 2010.

Yorkshire Dales Meat (YDM) has just been awarded a contract to supply Gifford’s Fine Foods with its range of sausages under its ‘Truly Local’ banner.

Edinburgh restaurant L’Escargot Bleu has started to serve horse meat on its menu, supplied by Campbell’s Prime Meats, according to a report in the Scottish media.

McDonald’s, the global provider of burgers, along with alternatives for the weight conscious, is beefing up its share of the Asian market.

Nearly a million more dishes with beef were served last in the UK foodservice market year, an increase to almost 1.3bn overall.

French guinea fowl producers are hoping to take the UK market by storm with the launch of their latest marketing campaign, which will see them team up with the Craft Guild of Chefs, as well as offer culinary workshops.

Eblex has announced it has launched a new-look website for the retail and meat processing industry.

Meat supplier Deliserve MD Tim Blandford has announced he will be retiring from his position at the end of March.

Initial Catering Services has become a licensee to use the Red Tractor logo on a proportion of its meat products.

Pork butcher Dicksons is to launch its range of sausages into Tesco this month.

Holmesterne Foods came away celebrating after picking up the overall winner and two categories wins at the Bpex Foodservice Pork Product of the Year awards.

Job roles including factory managers, production staff and marketing are the main skill gaps for the food sector, according to a survey from a top recruiter.

Reports of a VAT being applied to food have been denied by a leading ally to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Consumer publication Which? has given the Food Standards Agency (FSA) an overall positive review to celebrate the Agency’s 10th anniversary.

Climate change continues to dominate the headlines and will be the main topic of conversation at the annual Outlook Conference in London in April.

A Birmingham chef has beaten off competition from across the UK to be declared the Chef of the Year after a gruelling challenge which even tested competitors’ butchery skills.

Increased demand for alternative steak cuts is paying off for wholesalers, processors and catering butchers with benefits including improved beef carcase balance and increasing prices of under-used primals, Eblex has claimed.

A total of 15 prizes were presented at the annual Institute of Meat and Meat Training Council Awards at Butchers’ Hall, London. Prizewinners came from widely differing meat industry backgrounds and ages.

A final labelling code of practice for pork has been launched today (Tuesday) by Defra Secretary of State Hilary Benn at the NFU conference in Birmingham.

A new range of frozen cooked chicken products is being launched in the foodservice market.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will involve Michelin-starred Mike Robinson in a game tasting at Borough Market, London, as part of its National Taste of Game promotion.

Growing consumer demand for quality local sausage has led one Cumbrian producer to invest £250,000 in expanding its production. Plumgarths of Kendal's new production facility was officially opened this week by IGD chief executive, Joanne Denney-Finch OBE.

Frying meat on a gas hob has been found to increase the likelihood of people developing cancer.

A film examining the major players in the US agriculture industry opened in the UK on Friday.

The 10 chefs through to the final of the Aubrey Allen-sponsored British Culinary Federation ‘Chef of the Year’ for 2010 have been revealed.

Scotch meat bosses are hoping to create a revolution on the football terraces up and down the country with the launch of a new healthy eating pie.

More than 70 new exhibitors are set to make their debut at Foodex 2010, the UK’s leading meat exhibition. The new arrivals will be joining a strong list of over 200 firms, such as Handtmann, Reiser, Interfood Technology, Marel and Ishida Europe, which the organiser, William Reed Business Media, claimed demonstrated the continuing strength of the Foodex brand.

The West Cornwall Pasty Co is to expand its business and add another 15 shops and kiosks to its operation in 2010.

English beef is to be promoted in all 53 of hotel chain Marriott’s UK outlets.

A ‘Sear Beef’ campaign featuring meat from Yorkshire and Cornwall will run in properties from Glasgow to Portsmouth between February 15 and March 31.

Quality Meat Scotland will continue its support of the Champions in Schools programme, with a range of sports stars including ex-footballer John Collins, rugby player Chris Paterson and double Olympic sailing gold medallist, Shirley Robertson involved.

A future Conservative government would split up the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as part of its plan to improve public health strategies.

Tennis fans in Melbourne, Australia will be offered a taste of Scotland when haggis is served to supporters gathered at Melbourne Park tomorrow (Thursday).

A unique study is under way to look at changing trends in the consumption of halal meat in England.
The research, which is the first of its kind, has been commissioned by the newly-formed Halal Steering Group, established by Eblex with key industry figures to guide work in the halal sector and act as a forum for issues related to halal meat.

Bpex has unveiled dancer and presenter Anton Du Beke as their celebrity face for Bacon Connoisseurs’ Week, running from 22-28 March.

A leading poultry boss has made a move into fish, with the purchase of iconic fish and chip chain Harry Ramsdens.

This year’s Bpex and Eblex Outlook Conference will focus on climate change and how it affects consumer perception and the working of the supply chain, as well as forecasts for 2010 and beyond.

Aberdeen Scotch Meat has been put into liquidation. The company, based in Inverurie, supplies meat to the catering trade, but has been badly hit by the recession.

Hospitality and retail businesses keen to source local food and drink from the South Downs area are being invited to a Meet the Producer day in Petersfield.

Manufacturers and butchers supplying pork products to caterers have the chance to showcase their products in an annual contest.

Heart of England Fine Foods (HEFF) hopes to be dazzled by quality food and drink in its Diamond Awards 2010.

Burger giant McDonald’s has launched a nationwide study involving UK farms to find new methods of producing beef that cut greenhouse emissions.

Caterers, suppliers and buyers of red meat looking to target the public sector have a new handy reference guide.

A life-sized pie shaped like Welsh rugby player Shane Williams has been named one of the best PR campaigns of the year.

A co-founder of a leading turkey brand has passed away aged 80, her family has announced.

Pork industry body Bpex has launched its annual survey to gauge the ‘state of the nation’ in pigs.

Butchers are being challenged to come up with a new meat glaze in a UK-wide contest.

Meat wholesaler Clifton Quality Meats has announced it has opened a brand new cutting plant in Yorkshire to ensure it can meet demand that has been building across the region.

A meat industry entrepreneur has been honoured for her work to put more British meat in school meals.

Karen McQuade, boss of The UK Foodhall, won the everywoman Demeter Award after judges said her hard work and determination had meant more than 60% of all meat products on school menus was now British and Red Tractor-assured, compared with less than 10% two years ago.

The Good Food Guide is encouraging diners to quiz restaurateurs about the provenance of their Christmas turkey.

More schoolchildren will be eligible for free school meals the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has announced in his pre-Budget report (PRB) made yesterday (Wednesday).

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has called on the European Parliament to make country-of-origin labelling mandatory on processed meats.

Local authorities are being urged not to reduce spending on quality Welsh produce for their schools and nursing homes if their budgets are cut due to the recession.

All meat served at the 2012 London Olympics will be UK farm-assured after organisers vowed to hold the most sustainable Games in history.

The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) will procure UK Red Tractor Assured food wherever seasonally possible; meat at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be fully traceable and will have been produced to strict standards from farm to venue.

Welsh beef has a new television campaign this December, offering an alternative solution to the traditional turkey on Christmas Day.

An entrepreneur who uses British assured meat to cater for the school meals market has been crowned the UK’s best Start-Up Business of the Year.

Ginsters Pies has announced that it has linked with the GreenPalm initiative to support the production of sustainable palm oil in south-east Asia.

Event-goers to the London Restaurant Festival were able to try the best Argentina’s meat industry had to offer in a tasting session organised by the Argentine Beef Promotion Institute (IPCVA).

Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee were in London on Monday to celebrate the launch of British Sausage Week and award the multiple retail and London regional winners of the ‘Magical Banger’ competition.

Assured Food Standard (AFS) has announced that the Red Tractor logo now features on products with an annual retail sales value of £10bn.

Caterers, butchers, hoteliers and retailers are being invited to stand and bid for some of the country’s top livestock at the ringside of a premier winter livestock show.

Snowbird Foods is celebrating the bicentenary of one of Britain’s favourite cooking apples by relaunching its revamped and improved Gourmet Pork & Bramley Apple Sausage.

Little Bay is offering its customers the chance to help fight child hunger by eating rib-eye steak this month.

US producers are already gearing up to supply the EU market, following the decision to allow 20,000t of multi-origin beef into the community duty free.

Speaking at Anuga last week, John Brook, regional director for the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF), said the first US beef to be sent under the new agreement arrived in mid-August, and volumes were already showing signs of increasing.

Meat importer Heritage Foods has announced that a partnership with Clydesdale Bank could boost its existing £24m turnover to a new substantial level.

Catering butcher Yorkshire Dales Meat has taken home the Producer of the Year title at the International Business Forum awards dinner held in Scarborough.

Pukka Pies will be banging the drum for England at next year’s football World Cup finals in South Africa.

Fairfax Meadow is hoping for success with the launch of a new premium range of beef aimed at the foodservice sector

Organisers of British Sausage Week have announced that magician and assistant Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee will be the celebrity faces of the event this year.

A worrying number of UK inhabitants have never tasted traditional British dishes such as Toad in the Hole a survey has revealed.

Savoury pastry brand Ginsters of Cornwall has announced it is relaunching its individual 180g boxed pie range for this Autumn.

Turkey producer Copas has teamed up with UKTV Food chef Paul Clerehugh to create a premium turkey product for the foodservice industry.

The recession won’t stop game from getting off to a flying start this season, according to promotional body Game-to-Eat.

A second Brazilian beef exporter has agreed to stop sourcing cattle from farms involved in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

A Scottish meat wholesaler has resumed trading just months after fire devastated its meat processing plant.

Campbells Prime Meat was forced to cancel meat orders after a fire ripped through its Broxburn cutting plant in May, but the company has now relocated to a £6m new facility near Falkirk.

Some of the country’s top chefs and food development professionals were invited to a special duck masterclass, hosted by duck supplier Cherry Valley.

The UK needs to radically rethink the way in which food is produced and processed if we are to enjoy food security in the future, Hilary Benn said today.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs secretary was talking at the launch of the country’s first food security assessment, which analyses the current state of the UK’s food supply and highlights the key challenges to a sustainable future.

Foodservice outlets need to do a better job when it comes to menu descriptions of pork and sausage dishes, a BPEX report has found.

The Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland (LMC) has urged the government to introduce mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) in the foodservice sector

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Kentucky Fried Chicken is being sued by an 11-year-old Australian girl, who claims that she developed brain damage after eating a contaminated chicken twister.

Butchers, meat suppliers and chefs are reporting an increasing demand for the range of economy speciality steaks developed by EBLEX.

A sausage manufacturer is looking to expand its offer to butchers nationwide. Simply Real Sausages are currently available from butchers in London and the south east, but the company is looking to widen its distribution.

A group of restaurants have united to fight global hunger and give food-lovers the chance to make a difference while eating out.

A pie-maker in South Lanarkshire has been shortlisted for a British food competition with his Honeyed Venison Pie.

Schoolchildren in Leicestershire have been widening their taste buds with nutritious beef and lamb dishes cooked by a professional chef.

Haggis producer Macsween of Edinburgh has announced it has secured a £400,000 grant from the Scottish Government as part of Scotland’s Rural Development Programme.

Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan has told the Welsh Assembly that the Pennington Report has shone a clear light on industry shortcomings.

TV chef Phil Vickery has launched a new competition alongside the British Turkey Federation to get more turkey featured on the menus of Britain’s schools.

Beef and lamb industry body EBLEX is to launch a new cutting guide for butchers and caterers to help boost veal sales and inform consumers.

EBLEX will launch a new campaign to encourage people to buy Quality Standard beef and lamb for barbecues fronted by TV personality Ben Fogle.

Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef is being positioned to play a bigger part in the classroom following work by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales.

A Northern Ireland competition winner visited Liverpool recently to see her recipe cooked up by food writer Greg Wallace.

Turtons of Devon has opened a new cutting plant in Willand to process locally produced meat for the catering trade.

Less than a third of Britons believe that eating processed meat will increase the risk of bowel cancer, a YouGov survey has revealed.

The survey of 2,249 people, which was commissioned by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), revealed that only 32% of Britons think that eating meats such as bacon and ham will increase their risk of cancer.

Scotch Premier Meat customer Chateaubriand, based in Utrecht, Holland, has arranged to take 90 top chefs from Holland to visit the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston later this month.

Liverpool could become the first UK city to launch a weekly meat-free day in a bid to protect the environment.

Religious groups have responded furiously to revelations that restaurants across Britain have been unwittingly selling chicken injected with beef and pork proteins.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is defying its own name in a bid to attract more custom. The fast food chain has launched a new range of griddled chicken products – the first non-fried chicken ever to be sold in KFC restaurants.

Restaurants across Britain may have been unwittingly serving chicken pumped with beef and pork proteins.

New research suggests that eating curry several times a week could help prevent Alzheimer's.

Chicken fast-food firm Texas Chicken has announced it is to expand its operations in the UK to offer an alternative to restaurant giant KFC.

An animal rights group has re-erected a controversial billboard proclaiming that “feeding kids meat is child abuse.”

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has unveiled the inflammatory poster in Coventry, the home of Leanne Salt - a the 30-stone woman dubbed “Britain’s fattest mother”, who has admitted feeding her kids nuggets and burgers since they were six months old.

Scottish meat bosses took to London in a bid to reintroduce the capital’s restaurants to the sometimes forgotten pleasures of forequarter meat.

Fast food chicken chain KFC has embarked on a halal trial at eight of its London stores.

The directors of a meat factory gutted by a fire earlier this week are looking for new premises to restart production.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has predicted that global import demand for meat will fall for the first time in over a decade this year.

The Scottish meat supply chain has been thrown into chaos by a fire, which has ripped through a meat plant, causing an estimated £2m of damage.

American scientists have warned consumers to turn the barbecue down this summer, with new research suggesting that consumption of burnt and charred meat might increase the risk of pancreatic cancer.

MTJ is now posting daily news and views on Twitter, the micro-blogging service taking the internet by storm.

Demand for locally produced meat is set to continue, with the latest research revealing that the UK market for regional and local food has increased by £1.3bn since 2003.

Scottish meat bosses are hoping to change the image of pork in the foodservice sector with a special seminar. Chef members of Quality Meat Scotland’s prestigious Scotch Beef Club are being invited to the Gleneagles Hotel this month to be shown that pork should not be the Cinderella of meats and can prove an exciting, flexible and cost effective ingredient.

Catering giant Compass has clinched a great deal with Jockey Club Racecourses. It will now supply the food and drink at 14 racecourses across the country

Sales at Garfunkels and Frankie and Benny’s chain of popular restaurants – collectively known as the Restaurant Group – have fallen by 2.5% in the first nine weeks of this year.

An investigation by Trading Standards Officers in Wales has found that restaurants are regularly claiming that lamb is locally sourced in Wales when in fact it has come from England

The Indian curry, Britain’s long-standing favourite ethnic food, has been knocked off the top spot by Chinese cuisine, according to a new report from Mintel.

In a bid to help restaurants during the recession, Linden Foods has developed a new St George gourmet steak burger, which offers affordable quality, taste and provenance.

The UK's top young chefs were treated to a hands-on lesson in traditional cuts at Fairfax Meadow's London site this week.

A nutritionist has cast doubt over the findings of a study that linked the consumption of fresh and processed red meat to increased risk of blindness.

Butchers, chefs, farms and mutton enthusiasts gathered at Lucknam Park Hotel in Chippenham for the last of this season's Mutton Renaissance Club open events.

A "cock-up" which left a butcher with a surplus of cheese eventually led to the creation of an award-winning product.

The Soil Association has developed a new award scheme to recognise caterers that source sustainable food, including high-welfare meat.

The place for the best bacon sandwich in the country has been recognised in a new competition of best roadside outlets.

Domino's Pizza has caused controversy by turning one of its stores into a halal branch, with no ham or bacon toppings.

Chicken chain KFC has announced it is to create up to 9,000 new jobs with plans to open 200-300 more stores.

Two chefs were game to cook at the recent Hospitality trade show, which took place at the Birmingham NEC on 19-21 January 2009.

Kebabs nationwide have been slammed for their high fat and salt content, but it has now been revealed that Somerset kebabs are the worst of all.

A new study into the content of doner kebabs in the UK has found that most contain the entire daily allowance of salt and fat.

A row has erupted over NHS plans to cut the amount of meat served in British hospitals.

McDonald's has been named and shamed as the most litter-generating fast food brand in the country.

A London-based burger bar is claiming to be the first to serve an organic veal burger on its menu.

NHS boards in Scotland have been good at sourcing local meat for hospital meals according to a report published by the Scottish Parliament.