Tate&Lyle Labelling Their Sugar "Made In Britain" . Surely Shoppers Aren´t That Thick?

[piggynose]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/foodnews/farmers-bitter-at-tate-and-lyle-sugars-made-in-britain-packaging/ar-BB1eyvn2?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAnZ9Ug

Mind you apt name for the chairman Mr Sly.

[Sunk]

You can have it with your Yorkshire Tea picked on the Pontefract platations.

[AuntPollyGrey]

It is 'made' in Britain. Not all 'grown' in Britian (though the sugar made from sugar beet is grown in Britain) but it is processed in Britain so they can legally call it that.

[bluemoon1]

Are these angry farmers planning to grow sugar cane on their farms?

[Togo]

//Tate & Lyle Sugars sponsored the Conservative Party conference in 2017 and wrote a letter to its workforce before the EU referendum saying it backed Brexit.//

Hence the "concern" from the rabid remoaner Telegraph.

[Togo]

Ohh dear.

//A Tate & Lyle Sugars spokesperson said: “Our factories in East London have been making sugar and syrups for over 140 years, employing generations of local people in good quality jobs. Unfortunately, this is another attempt to undermine and belittle those factories and the 850 people that work in them.

“It is no coincidence that this comes at a time when the UK is deciding how to correct the decades-long discrimination that cane refining faced in the EU, seeing it tightly restricted whilst the beet sugar industry benefitted from generous subsidies and deregulation."//

[aelmpvw]

i suppose the next step will be 'no slaves were used in the making of this product'

[pastafreak]

Shouldn't there be a distinction between what is grown, processed, and packed in the UK...and what is packed using imported ingredients? If T & L used home grown sugar beet in some its products vs imported sugarcane in others, I'd want that on the label.

[barry1010]

I use Silver Spoon sugar which IS grown, processed and packaged in the UK - entirely from sugar beet.

[AuntPollyGrey]

More than 50% of the UK sugar is sourced from UK grown sugar beet, at least 1.5 million tonnes a year of processed sugar. More than enough to sweeten your Yorkshire Tea, not grown in Yorkshire.!

[barry1010]

I have just looked at the Tate and Lyle website and all their sugar is clearly described on the front of each packet as 'cane sugar'. This is obviously imported.
Buy Silver Spoon.

[ParsleyDumpling]

Pasta, Tate & Lyle only use cane sugar. I used to work for them, before our division was sold off to an Irish company.

[barry1010]

piggynose, would you think it okay for a cabinet maker to describe his furniture as 'made in Britain' if it is made from mahogany? Surely it's the same thing

[alavahalf]

''i suppose the next step will be 'no slaves were used in the making of this product''

'No slaves used in the delivery of this package'..
Amazon could never add that to the sides of their packages ..

[royfromaus]

https://twitter.com/arghkid/status/1370779156368220170/photo/1

[royfromaus]

it's the photo I wanted

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwX8DIkWUAAc5jx?format=jpg&name=medium

[Togo]

Cars that advertise made in Britain. Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mini.

[piggynose]

12.54 barry, so you dont think made in Britain is misleading?
Surely it would be better and less ambigious to say for example our furniture is made from the best swedish mahogany and and assembled in our workshop/s in t`yorkshire. Also T&L could´ve placated our farmers by clearly stating eg our sugar is grown in British managed plantations in Costa Rica and processed in t´yorkshire, imho.

[ichkeria]

It’s definitely misleading. Although you don’t have to be thick of course to fall for it.
There are probably people who think Yorkshire tea is made in Yorkshire.
“Bananas grown and handpicked in Renfrewshire”: that would be even worse.
Tho “grown in Renfrewshire and handpicked in Cornwall” would be even sillier.

[douglas9401]

I use Aldi sweeteners.

[Buenchico]

Should I expect a London dry Gin to be made solely in London, from juniper berries grown solely in that city? (London dry gins are made all over the world. Most of those distilled in this country are made from berries grown in Italy).

Sunk has already mentioned Yorkshire tea, which is sold alongside English Breakfast tea. If you don't fancy tea though, how about a cup of Italian coffee (which Italians claim is the finest in the world, even though it's not grown there)?

The 'cane versus beet' argument is often given voice to here in Suffolk, as British Sugar's 'Silver Spoon' factory is in Bury St Edmunds and sugar beet is an important crop to many farmers in East Anglia. However it's PRICE that ultimately dictates what the supermarkets buy, and what shoppers will buy from those supermarkets. At one time the Tesco superstore in Bury St Edmunds was selling Silver Spoon sugar (rather than Tate& Lyle's, which was being sold in all of their other stores in the UK) just to keep the locals happy. (The store is accessed off the same roundabout that also serves the Silver Spoon factory, with many British Sugar employees shopping in there). However, in order to charge the same price that they did in their other stores, they were selling it at a LOSS.

Similarly, I've been into our local Co-op and seen both Tate & Lyle sugar and Silver Spoon offered side by side. (Once again, the retailer was trying to support a local business). However most people still bought Tate & Lyle anyway. Why? Because Silver Spoon was 40p per kilogram bag dearer!