{"id":4613,"date":"2018-03-05T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:05:06","slug":"dr-sean-beer-on-bbc-radio-discussing-the-impact-of-the-snow-and-storm-emma-on-food-supplies-in-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2018\/03\/05\/dr-sean-beer-on-bbc-radio-discussing-the-impact-of-the-snow-and-storm-emma-on-food-supplies-in-supermarkets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sean Beer on BBC radio discussing the impact of the snow and storm Emma on food supplies in supermarkets."},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2018\/03\/Sean_Beer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4614 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2018\/03\/Sean_Beer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2018\/03\/Sean_Beer.jpg 298w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2018\/03\/Sean_Beer-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This morning Dr Sean Beer was much in demand on BBC radio discussing the impact of the snow and storm Emma on food supplies in supermarkets.\u00a0 Sean maintained that pictures from across the UK of empty supermarket shelves were just another example of the vulnerability of our food supply chains.\u00a0 This was hot on the heels of \u2018nugget\u2019 shortages and problems with meat supply to other high street eateries.\u00a0 Sean described a food supply chain that was long, complicated and therefore at risk of disruption, with half of a supermarkets food on the shelves and half in lorries on the way to the shops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Having said this by the end of the week consumers will have forgotten the shortages, just as they have forgotten foot and mouth and the horsemeat scandal.\u00a0 What is needed is a wholesale review of the food systems that underpin our lives; from economic, social and environmental perspectives, but people have short memories and do they really care? \u00a0After all, as Sean Says, if he came up to you and asked to put his fingers in your mouth you would call a policeman; yet every day we put food into our mouths without a second thought as to where it has come from!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Dr Sean Beer was much in demand on BBC radio discussing the impact of the snow and storm Emma on food supplies in supermarkets.\u00a0 Sean maintained that pictures from across the UK of empty supermarket shelves were just another example of the vulnerability of our food supply chains.\u00a0 This was hot on the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2018\/03\/05\/dr-sean-beer-on-bbc-radio-discussing-the-impact-of-the-snow-and-storm-emma-on-food-supplies-in-supermarkets\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Dr Sean Beer on BBC radio discussing the impact of the snow and storm Emma on food supplies in supermarkets.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}