{"id":59561,"date":"2021-09-28T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59561"},"modified":"2021-09-28T06:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T11:35:35","slug":"millions-of-britons-could-face-national-shortage-of-turkeys-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59561","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Britons Could Face \u2018National Shortage\u2019 of Turkeys This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian Taplin feeds the free-range Norfolk Black organic turkeys on Laverstoke Park Farm, on their final day before being killed for the Christmas Day table, in Overton, England, on Dec. 12 2006. (Matt Cardy\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Millions of Britons Could Face \u2018National Shortage\u2019 of Turkeys This Christmas<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Trees and toys also at risk, suppliers say<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Millions of Britons could face a \u201cnational shortage\u201d of turkeys, toys, and trees this Christmas\u00a0due to a lack of skilled European employees following\u00a0Brexit<\/a>, according to the chair of a farming association.<\/p>\n

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) last month said the UK is facing a\u00a0shortage of around 100,000 HGV drivers, which along with Brexit, has been further exacerbated by people leaving the industry as well as the\u00a0pandemic<\/a>, which halted\u00a0driver training and testing for nearly a year.<\/p>\n

As a result, food supply chains have been drastically disrupted,\u00a0leading to shortages across some UK supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n

Kate Martin of the Traditional Farm Fresh Turkey Association (TFTA) told the PA news agency that Christmas could see a \u201cnational shortage\u201d of turkeys on the UK\u2019s supermarket shelves, driven by the declining supply of\u00a0skilled European workers.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0small\u00a0British farms that use local workers have been less affected by the undersupply, supermarkets are likely to see the worst of it, the TFTA said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year it\u2019s looking like there is a national shortage of turkeys when we\u2019re talking about supermarket shelves, rather than buying direct from your farm,\u201d\u00a0Martin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the supermarket shelves that will be emptier on turkeys this year than they have been before, only because there have been less turkeys placed on the ground, only because the big processers know that they will not get them processed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brian Taplin feeds the free-range Norfolk Black organic turkeys on Laverstoke Park Farm, on their final day before being killed for the Christmas Day table, in Overton, England, on Dec. 12 2006. (Matt Cardy\/Getty Images) UK Millions of Britons Could Face \u2018National Shortage\u2019 of Turkeys This Christmas Trees and toys also at risk, suppliers say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31861,31862,31091,3237,16350,820,2080],"class_list":["post-59561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-katabella-roberts","tag-retail-consumption","tag-supply-chain-disruptions","tag-supply-chains","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59562,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59561\/revisions\/59562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}