How the China-US trade war could push up the cost of British chicken dinners
- Written by Theo Stanley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Geography, University of Southampton
Until the end of October, China had refused to purchase a single soya bean from the US’s 2025 harvest. It usually spends tens of billions of dollars on the crop, which is a key ingredient in animal feed, so the boycott hit US farmers hard – and affected food systems far beyond US and Chinese borders.
Since then, a meeting between the...
