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The Food Programme: Chris Haskins: Former Food Production Adviser

Chris Haskins: Former Food Production Adviser

23/09/2007

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Chris Haskins: Former Food Production Adviser

Simon Parkes profiles Chris Haskins, farmer, former executive and government adviser.

Simon Parkes profiles Chris Haskins, farmer, former company chairman and adviser to the Blair government on food production and the food retail sector.

In the first of three profiles of people who have influenced the food we eat and helped shape the way we think about food, Simon Parkes meets Chris Haskins, former head of Northern Foods, now Lord Haskins of Skidby.

As a supermarket supplier Chris Haskins helped develop some of the best selling dishes in recent history, including the chilled ready meal. After leaving Northern Foods he has advised the government on a range of issues including the future of farming. He is also a supporter of Genetic Modification and ambivalent about organic food.

Simon Parkes visits Lord Haskins on his farm and finds out what have been the forces that have shaped him, talks to him about his own eating habits and also explores his thinking on issues ranging from food production through to supermarkets.

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