§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he has any plans to introduce legislation to make supermarkets use labels to show whether the meat they sell has been reared and slaughtered humanely; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RyderI have no plans to introduce such legislation which would, I believe, give rise to considerable practical problems regarding compliance and enforcement since it is impossible to distinguish analytically between meat from animals slaughtered or reared in different ways. There is nothing to prevent the provision of this type of information on a voluntary basis.