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Intensive Dairy Farming

Proceeding contribution from Robert Flello (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 December 2010. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Intensive Dairy Farming.
I am listening with great interest and appreciating the passion of the hon. Gentleman's speech. Will he draw some parallels with what has happened in the pottery industry in my constituency, where the work has gone abroad? Pottery owners drove down prices as much as possible to try to compete with cheap imports until they were no longer competitive. Production moved abroad, goods were produced more cheaply and then imported back, and were passed off as being produced here because they were packaged here. Is not the same thing happening already in the food industry with pork being imported, packaged and sold to unsuspecting British consumers as though it were British pork? I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's line of argument, and perhaps he will draw some parallels.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
520 c223WH 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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