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British Agriculture and Food Labelling

Proceeding contribution from Jane Kennedy (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 24 February 2009. It occurred during Opposition day on British Agriculture and Food Labelling.
It is certainly something that I will be looking into. [Interruption.] Well, it is something that I am absolutely committed to seeing whether we can achieve, because I think it will help British consumers and will allow them to use the power of their spending to support British farmers, and I think they deserve that. There may be options for action in the UK or England for some produce. I am not yet in a position to start to debate the detail of what those options might be, but there is certainly no simple solution. I want to explore them further. The taskforce that I am establishing to examine the changes taking place in the pigmeat supply chain is the forum to do that, as there will be immediately available to it the advice of the Food Standards Agency, farmers, slaughterers, processors and retailers, all of whom have agreed to join the taskforce.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
488 c234 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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