On the 14th of November 2023 Barry attended an Environment, Food and Rural Affair Select Committee session looking into how resilient is the UK’s food supply chain is.
This panel consisted of 3 experts Ms Sue Davies, Head of Consumer Rights and Food Policy at Which?, Professor Charlotte Hardman, Professor of Psychology of Eating Behaviour at the University of Liverpool and Dr Francesca Pontin, Research Data Scientist, Consumer Data Research Centre at the University of Leeds.
Barry asked this panel of experts why an avocado travelling from London is more expensive then one from Peru and questioned them on why the public’s trust in supermarkets is falling.