Supermarkets across the United Kingdom have seen their shelves stripped of roast chicken through supply shortages.
The poultry industry say that the current state of affairs is at 'breaking point' with producers struggling to survive with soaring energy prices and packaging costs which have caused the current system to be dubbed 'unsustainable'.
The British Poultry Council has warned that supermarkets must increase the prices they are paying for meat, while fruit and vegetable stocks also suffer through climate problems in Spain and the Mediterranean affecting UK imports.
