Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Table 17.3

Components of UK weekly food basket and expenditure per person, plus price of each component including externalities to

farm gate

Components of food basket

Consumption (home

+ eating out) g person

–1 wk

–1

Expenditure

(p person

–1 wk

–1)

Price including externalities

from current agriculture

(p person

–1 wk

–1)

Price including externalities

if all organic agriculture

(p person

–1 wk

–1)

1

Liquid milk

751

37.6

39.4

38.4

Other milk and cream

1401

103.7

107.2

105.2

Cheese

135

72.4

91.3

75.9

Fats/oils

196

37.9

39.3

38.2

Eggs (no.)

1.72

17.3

18.4

17.7

Beef/veal

142

72.9

93.0

76.7

Lamb/mutton

68

33.1

39.5

35.5

Pork

83

32.2

33.1

32.5

Poultry

262

91.3

94.6

92.4

Bacon/other meat

487

222.5

227.7

224.1

Fish

166

97.3

97.3

2

97.3

2

Fresh potatoes

797

39.5

40.7

39.7

Fresh green vegetables

273

40.2

40.4

40.3

Other green vegetables

526

69.8

70.1

69.9

Processed vegetables

578

107.3

107.7

107.4

Fresh fruit

738

96.0

96.9

96.1

Other fruit and fruit products

373

42.7

43.2

42.8

Sugar and preserves

139

14.3

14.4

14.3

Bread

804

83.9

87.8

84.6

Cakes and biscuits

285

84.2

85.5

84.4