The trade deals favoured by Fox and Rees-Mogg would see our farming industry crippled, so there would be nowhere to implement them.

The real benefits of leaving the EU would be in increasing standards and changing people's diets and the quality of the food they eat. That would really make people's lives and society a much better and more equal place.

The desire of those hijacking Brexit for their own means want to do the very opposite and lead us to a race to the bottom that would destroy domestic industry and jobs, reduce quality of life and work and further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of the (neo)liberal elite.

The article is well sourced and it is clearly of interest so I would argue it definitely is news.

We might not buy them now, but the concern is that we may be buying them in huge quantities in 3 years.

The difference here is these US practices are perfectly legal, whereas pretending that horse meat is beef is not.

At which point it's all too late. It's important to prevent bad things from happening rather than accepting the consequences once they have.

There you are, predicting the future again.

Optimistic as ever

Come back in 3 years, if and when we are importing them in huge quantities (we won't be), but until then you might as well worry about a volcano wiping out the UK if you're going to worry about this.

who's predicting the future now?

Edited by europalace (22 Feb 2018 4.55pm)

and you eat meat don't you?
and when I read about what happens in the meat industry.. its effects on the planet, people's health and the conditions animals are kept in and their treatment it doesn't surprise me that more people are going the same route or beginning to cut meat and dairy out of their diet. Stories like this get very little mention in mainstream media... I mean 10 years ago when there were no vegans around very few people knew about what happened to animals in slaughterhouses, nobody knew about the health benefits of a vegan diet and very few people knew about the effects of eating meat on the environment. It's why more people are deciding to change their diets and shops are beginning to adapt to these changes by selling more plant based foods. People are changing because information is becoming more widely known - and as it becomes more known people will continue to question what they are eating. If this had been known 30 years ago we'd have even more plant based options and vegans in the world now. I'm sure that in another 30 years time there'll be a lot more vegan options around and a lot more vegans for you to argue against...

Edited by sitdownstandup (22 Feb 2018 9.07pm)

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

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