Re: Britain outside the EU
Meanwhile back in the real world ..
The Con
PM pledges to defend UK farming standards in trade talks
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Boris Johnson has promised the country’s farmers that he will defend British food and farming standards in the UK's trade negotiations.
“We won’t compromise on high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards,” he said in his address today.
Farm leaders have repeatedly expressed fears that the government may be prepared to allow imports produced to lower standards in order to secure trade agreements with the likes of the US and Australia.
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Reality:
RSPCA raises serious concerns over animal welfare and climate change as full Australia trade deal is signed
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As the UK today announced the free trade deal with Australia, the RSPCA raises serious concerns that this deal will mean beef and lamb imports produced to lower animal welfare standards will enter the country as well undermining the UK's position as a leader on tackling climate change.
Australian food production follows much lower animal welfare standards than in the UK which means that this Free Trade Deal will make it easier for products which would never meet the UK production standards to be imported and sold in the UK. This will include imported beef from cattle raised on enormous, bare feed-lots and suffering transport times of up to 48 hours, and lamb from sheep that have been mulesed without anaesthetic, a mutilation that is banned in the UK. Concerningly, as the UK's procurement standards allow in low welfare imports, these products could even find their way onto the menus of public sector organisations and into the meals of school children and hospital patients who don't have a choice about the origins of their food
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