Farmers Outraged As 'South West' Beef Is Shown to Be Foreign ; Farmers Have Expressed Their Outrage After a Bbc Investigation Discovered That a Significant Amount of Beef Sold in Devon's Restaurants As Local Was Actually Foreign.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › May 03, 2008

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Farmers have expressed their outrage after a BBC investigation discovered that a significant amount of beef sold in Devon's restaurants as local was actually foreign.

The report was prompted by Jilly Greed, of Thorverton, regional spokesman for the National Beef Association, which has been campaigning for consumers to be able to know where their beef comes from.

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Farmers Outraged As 'South West' Beef Is Shown to Be Foreign ; Farmers Have Expressed Their Outrage After a Bbc Investigation Discovered That a Significant Amount of Beef Sold in Devon's Restaurants As Local Was Actually Foreign.

The BBC paid for the DNA testing of beef samples from 40 food outlets which labelled the beef's origin as Sout...

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