§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that herbivore farm animals are not fed animal by-products; and if he will make a statement. [155965]
§ Ms QuinIt is already an offence under the Animal By-Products Order 1999, to feed to ruminants either catering waste containing meat or meat products or unprocessed animal by-products.
Mammalian meat and bone meal may not be fed to any farmed animals. Draft legislation prohibiting the feeding of poultry and fish meal to ruminants had been prepared.