Tesco faces flak from farmers for buying less British beef

National Farmers Union accuses supermarket of breaking promise to source closer to home in wake of horsemeat scandal Tesco is under fire from farmers after cutting the amount of British beef it bought last year despite promising to source closer to home in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. The UK's biggest supermarket bought nearly 8% less British beef in November 2013 than it did a year earlier despite taking out full-page advertisements 12 months ago saying: "We know that the more we work wit...