
Andrea Jenkyns: Global Britain can lead the way on farm animal welfare standards
We must use our new freedoms to tackle agricultural practices which conflict with the values of the British people.
We must use our new freedoms to tackle agricultural practices which conflict with the values of the British people.
If we allow Britain to get locked into Brussels’ agricultural orbit, it will cost us both export opportunities and higher prices in the supermarket.
The only caveat is the attitude of the Welsh Labour Government, hell-bent on replacing the EU’s onerous regulations with their own.
The Government’s new measures for foie gras and pig farmers are a great step for animal rights.
The commission has come up with an an innovative proposal for import policy.
Instead of listening to what Scotland can’t do without Brussels, I want our government to start talking about the opportunities on our doorstep.
We should embrace the opportunity Brexit affords to overhaul our approach towards agricultural subsidies, re-wilding, and pesticide control.
It might seem far-fetched that one could face jail for eating steak frites. But one could have said the same about not eating at least a scotch egg with your pint.
The UK market for food and groceries is a massive prize for any country to be allowed greater access to it. We should not sell ourselves short.
They can seem remote from the everyday priorities of people here at home. But at its heart, trade is a powerful way to deliver what people really care about.
Debate on the Agriculture Bill gives them the chance to call for more effective measures than those which independent assessments find wanting.
Such would be the effect of a well-intentioned but ill thought-out amendment to the Agriculture Bill that will come to the Commons tomorrow.
It is deeply dangerous for discussions around this sector to not only exclude half of the population by gender, but ignore wider demographic change.
Agricultural vehicle and land rover theft is up by over a quarter. We need to stamp out serious organised crime in our countryside.
I, for one, see this new Commission as further evidence that the Government will take expert advice that benefits farmers and consumers.