{"id":59415,"date":"2021-09-21T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59415"},"modified":"2021-09-21T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:03:32","slug":"quite-alarming-uk-energy-crisis-sparks-fresh-chaos-for-food-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59415","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quite Alarming&#8221; &#8211; UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/quite-alarming-uk-energy-crisis-sparks-fresh-chaos-food-suppliers\">&#8220;Quite Alarming&#8221; &#8211; UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>Last week Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/major-uk-fertilizer-plants-shuttered-due-skyrocketing-natural-gas-prices\">suspended operations<\/a>\u00a0at two UK plants because of soaring natural gas prices. As a result, these fertilizer plants that make carbon dioxide as a byproduct are in sudden shortages and are rippling through the UK food sector, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-09-17\/energy-crisis-brings-fresh-chaos-for-battered-u-k-food-industry?sref=RJ2RlMrh\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage of carbon dioxide has forced Online grocer Ocado Group Plc to halt all deliveries of frozen products to customers, and the meat industry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/uk-gas-crisis-stuns-poultry-slaughterhouses\">warned<\/a>\u00a0slaughterhouse operations could &#8220;grind to a halt&#8221; in weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/carbon.jpg?itok=FLqXEbpS\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/carbon.jpg?itok=FLqXEbpS\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/carbon.jpg?itok=FLqXEbpS\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1a88bf3a-1902-4831-b037-003ca0424400\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\" data-google-query-id=\"CNjGjpyBkPMCFW3ihgodGZQKPg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\">The UK food industry, already stressed from supply chain woes and labor shortages due to Brexit and the pandemic, is under even more pressure with the lack of carbon dioxide. It&#8217;s an important chemical used to stun chicken and pigs before slaughter, as well as packaging to extend shelf life and dry ice that keeps perishable items frozen during delivery. Without it, food supply chains break.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The British Meat Processors Association warned carbon dioxide supplies could be exhausted by the end of the month, forcing slaughterhouses to close and result in a mass culling of animals.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Ocado halted deliveries of frozen food to customers because of the dry ice shortage.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite alarming,&#8221; said Nick Allen, head of the meat association. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking between days and weeks from this really hitting hard, unless somewhere in the world &#8212; ideally here in Europe &#8212; there are supplies of this that can replace that amount of CO2 very quickly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ripple effect continues as British Soft Drinks Association monitors the carbon dioxide situation as the industry could go flat.<\/p>\n<p>Besides CF Industries, Norwegian fertilizer maker Yara said it would soon reduce ammonia output capacity by 40% because of record-high natural gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>The broader impact could be soaring food and energy inflation across the UK, threatening the country&#8217;s post-pandemic economic recovery and financially strain consumers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Quite Alarming&#8221; &#8211; UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers Last week Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc\u00a0suspended operations\u00a0at two UK plants because of soaring natural gas prices. 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