'Don't believe the hype about no Christmas turkeys': Farmers on the truth about the shortages

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'Don't believe the hype about no Christmas turkeys': Farmers on the truth about the shortages
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'Don't believe the hype about no Christmas turkeys' 🐓 Farmers on the truth about the shortages

or been culled. If a single case is detected, every bird on that farm must be killed; an awful fate to befall any farmer.

“It’s a commercial challenge because the money we make in this, our busiest period, needs to see us through [the] summer months when things are quieter.” They will continue to sell other options for Christmas centrepieces but it is “devastating” for the farmers impacted says Coughlan. People are panic-buying frozen turkeys in response to reports that there won’t be any turkeys available at Christmas.

“It’s been very unhelpful,” says Paul White of Paul’s Turkeys – a farmer of free range, heritage breed turkeys in the Pennines – of the coverage of the situation and what he claims to be its perpetration by the supermarkets, “it’s driven frozen sales massively. Even people who normally buy from independent suppliers are thinking, ‘we won’t be able to do that this year’, and so are picking up turkeys in the frozen section of the supermarket to make sure they have one. And that is understandable.

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