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Article: Campaignerswelcome them&s ban onveal imports
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2007
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Marks & Spencer has now cleared all imported "white" veal from its
shelves in a move which has delighted welfare campaigners.
From tomorrow, the retailer will sell only high-welfare British
pink veal and calf liver, buying from a family-run farm in Lothian
which already supplies it with milk.
Britain took the European lead in banning intensive veal crate
systems in 1990 after decades of protests by animal welfare
campaigners.
The widely despised crates, in which male calves were imprisoned
to produce white veal meat, eventually became illegal across the
whole of the EU in January, to be replaced by group housing systems.
But campaigners say while these are theoretically more humane,
many ...