23/06/2014
Sea Cadets is proud to support Seafarers Awareness Week (21 – 29 June) to promote the UK’s reliance on seafarers supplying essential food, fuel and goods, keeping shipping lanes open and protecting the UK’s interests at home and abroad. Half the food eaten in the UK is imported and, of this, 95% comes by ship (a fact known by only two per cent of the public, according to a recent survey). Yet despite this, a quarter of us (27%) assume the bulk of our food comes by air and one in five of us (20%) think it comes by road! The top food Brits can't live without is the potato - with almost half of those surveyed (43%) saying it's their favourite food we import.