My hon. Friend is being very generous with his time. I hope that he recognises that we need to view this matter globally. It makes no sense to allow UK farmers to plant trees and remove land from beef production to then allow South American farmers to tear up rain forests to produce beef and to ship it around the world, so that it sits on supermarket shelves next to UK-produced beef.
Beef Cattle and Sheep (Carbon Footprint)
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Spencer
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 June 2013.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Beef Cattle and Sheep (Carbon Footprint).
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