UK law for home-grown feed rejected
18/11/2010
Mr Flello told fellow MPs: “Some of the drivers behind climate change are hidden. For example, the production of soya requires high-nitrate fertilisers and weedkillers, and there are greenhouse gas emissions from both the production of those fertilisers and chemical sprays and their transportation to farms.”
He added that valuable rainforest would give way to soya production and small-scale farmers would also be forced off the land.
MP David Nuttall said the proposed law would not achieve its aims. “Sadly, I feel the effect of it could well result, not in the continuation of livestock farming in this country, but in its steady and gradual decline.”
Farm Minister Jim Paice said of the failed proposal: “It is not for the government, directly, to say one form of production is right and another is wrong. What matters most is consumers are properly informed about how and where their food is produced. They can make the right judgement according to their own views and beliefs.”
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