Ireland is part of a small club that includes the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia in which consumers spend less than 10pc of their income on food. All of the rest of the EU, as well as Japan and New Zealand, spend up to 15pc on food – while much of the rest of the world, including Russia, China, India and most of South America, spends twice this amount.
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