NFU Scotland president Andrew Connon said: "So when Government starts talking about capping prices at the checkout, the pressure does not disappear, it gets pushed straight back down the chain onto the very people producing our food. Any intervention that distorts the market without protecting primary producers risks damaging domestic production and, ultimately, undermining the very food security objective it seeks to achieve."
First Minister John Swinney has been encouraged not to put a cap on food without safeguarding farmers from untimely price hikes. At the Scottish Nationalist Party's (SNP) election manifesto launch last...
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