WHY I’M WORRIED ABOUT . . .

‘PLASTIC’ food. Sainsbury’s is to introduce packaging for chicken that enables those too squeamish to touch meat to tip it straight into the pan.

This is in response to feedback from focus groups that found younger customers in particular are fearful not just of touching meat, but of the germs it may hold. Yet would these same people shrink from picking up and eating a burger? I suspect not.

I fear for the eating habits of a generation who are so scared of eating anything that does not look like a sterile, packaged meal.