12:44pm Friday 6th November 2009
WORKERS at a specialist food production factory in Stokesley have received a visit from MP William Hague.
Mr Hague was in the area on a constituency visit and stopped by the Premier Foods factory, which produces the vegetarian meat substitute Quorn.
The Richmond MP was given a tour of the site and met some of the 300 staff employed at the factory, before sitting down to a lunch buffet made entirely of Quorn products.
Tim Finnigan, head of innovations for Quorn, said: “Mr Hague was very interested in having a tour of the factory and finding out how we produce our goods. He was amazed at the scale of what has been happening here on his doorstep. He spent quite a long time talking to the workers and finding out about their lives and also about the business.”
Quorn was created in 1965 as an answer to concerns about a global protein shortage in the future and is now popular with vegetarians across the world.
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