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Article: Tesco's backing ensures a rosy future for veal farmers
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2008
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Farmers in the West are welcoming news that Britain's biggest
super-market has pledged only to buy British veal.
Tesco will phase out its imported veal and instead stock British
meat from calves that are bred to higher welfare standards.
The switch is possible because farmers that supply the
supermarket with milk have agreed not to export their dairy calves.
This means the calves will stay in the British supply chain
instead of being reared abroad where welfare standards are lower.
Live calf exports from the UK to the Continent resumed in 2006
after a decade-long ban brought in to stem the BSE crisis was
lifted. But they were temporarily suspended again last year because