Georgesgran
I buy British on principle too. I’d also read somewhere that Danish animal welfare is nowhere near as good as ours which stopped me buying Lurpak years ago. I stand to be corrected on that.
AFAIK our animal welfare laws are somewhat tighter than EU law. Given the vast amount of Danish bacon on our supermarket shelves, not to mention the comparatively rather cheaper (compared to U.K. source) Dutch and German pork and gammon I see in Asda, I would imagine that the amount of more extreme factory-farming that goes on within the EU is pretty staggering.
We don’t eat much bacon, pork or gammon any more at all, but when I do occasionally want any I buy it from a higher-welfare, U.K. source.
Asda does still stock U.K. bacon though.
I don’t suppose I was the only one who was appalled to read of the 17 million mink - presumably factory farmed - that had to be mass-slaughtered in Denmark, early on in the pandemic.
And most of the pelts, so I read, would have been destined for China, which is not noticeably bothered about animal welfare, either.