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Article: Retailers accused of derailing pig welfare.(news: FRESH FOOD)(Brief article)
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- January 17, 2009
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Retailers have been accused of failing to support pig farmers and undermining efforts to improve welfare standards in a scathing new report.
While the report, issued by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select committee this week, praised producers for implementing higher welfare standards, it claimed some retailers had derailed those efforts by importing pigmeat that failed to meet UK welfare standards.
"It is apparent that a portion of the retail industry has undermined the efforts of government and the pig industry to introduce and implement desirable animal welfare legislation in the UK," the report claimed.
The committee estimated ...