Bringing home the bacon
We know it matters to you how pigs in this country, and further afield, are farmed. So we thought you'd like to know that at M&S, all our fresh pork is either free range or outdoor bred, in Scotland and East Anglia, on specially selected farms that we know and trust. And now all our bacon, and the pork in our sausages, is sourced solely from British farms.
All fresh our pork comes from breeds that have been chosen for their suitability for outdoor breeding and are reared to our leading animal welfare standards.
It's not just our fresh pork that we can trace. All our pork, whether it's in sausages, sandwiches or on your pizza, is clearly labelled to tell you the country of origin. And we can guarantee that it's all produced to UK welfare standards, wherever it's sourced.
As part of our Plan A commitments, we're also working at the moment to convert all our fresh pork to free range. We already sell free range pork in selected stores - look out for the labels on pack - and we'll continue to work on producing more free range meat in the coming months. M&S free range pork comes from pigs that spend their whole life outdoors, with the freedom to roam and access shelter.
All M&S outdoor bred pork comes from pigs that have been born outdoors and are raised in spacious indoor straw-bedded barns.
M&S' standards of animal welfare have been recognised by the RSPCA (in 2008 we won the RSPCA Good Business Awards for Supermarkets, as well as a Compassion in World Farming Most Compassionate Supermarket Award).
So, next time you put pork, or something with pork in it, in your M&S basket, just take a look at the label and it'll tell you all you need to know. When it comes to the traceability and welfare of our pigs, we're bringing home the bacon.
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