§ Mrs. Joyce ButlerI beg to present a Petition to the House of Commons of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, which has been signed by about 100,000 members of the National Association for Health and members of the general public in support of the Labelling of Food Bill.
The Petition showeth that:
Your Petitioners view with grave concern the increasing difficulty experienced by your Petitioners and other consumers in ascertaining what ingredients and methods have been employed in the production of food and toilet preparations, due to the increasing tendency towards the use of additives and intensive methods of production without any sufficient indications thereof being given by label or notice;Wherefore, your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House will be concerned to afford protection by way of legislation such as is proposed by the Labelling of Food Bill so as to require full information to be given by label or notice of (a) ingredients added to food and toilet preparations; (b) substances or unnatural methods used in the rearing of animals for food; (c) substances used in the production of fruit and vegetables, in order that consumers may be enabled to exercise their choice of these products on the basis of sufficient information.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.