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Leaving the EU: Animal Welfare Standards in Farming

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing the debate. She is right to highlight that in theory the European Union upheld consistent standards of high animal welfare, but does she agree that sometimes there was not a level playing field? While British farmers were proud to abide by those standards, we saw battery cages going from Suffolk to Spain. At the very time that British farmers were introducing high standards, other farmers in Europe were not abiding by those standards.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
620 c80WH 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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