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When explaining the fundamental flaw with the current agricultural system, Bruce Friedrich said: "For about 12,000 years we have been raising animals for meat in roughly the same way: we farm them." This is an incredibly inefficient process, where up to 99% of what we feed animals goes toward...

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Esther McVey calls for clearer labelling of halal and kosher meats in the UK She argued that consumers concerned about animal welfare particularly where pre‑stunning isn’t used - (88% of halal meat in the UK is pre-stunned) Transcript: “I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to introduce compulsory labelling of halal and kosher meat and products containing halal and kosher meat; and for connected purposes. This is a Bill about animal welfare, transparency in meat production and consumer choice. It does not seek to ban halal or kosher meat. It seeks to ensure that it is clearly labelled. It is important that consumers have such information so that they can make an informed choice about what they are buying. Currently consumers do not have that information, and many are purchasing and consuming halal and kosher meat without their knowledge and agreement. The unique process of halal and kosher meat requires the animal to have its throat slit. In the case of halal meat, the animal is often stunned before it is killed — although it might not be — and for the shechita killing for kosher meat, there is no pre‑stunning. This lack of stunning causes the animal to experience severe pain. An individual concerned about animal welfare would want to know if the animal has been stunned prior to slaughter. Likewise, there are many religious groups who want to know what they are consuming too and whether the meat has been blessed by another religion. In all those cases clear labelling is essential to make an informed choice. Currently, the legislation that regulates animal slaughter is set out in assimilated EU regulation 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing, as well as in the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015. Under these laws, animals must be stunned before they are killed, but exemptions exist for killing without stunning in accordance with specific religious rites. Added to that, there are currently no requirements for such meat to be labelled. What was once an exemption to the accepted stunning process of animals has become a growing part of the UK’s meat market. The Government’s own figures show that of the 1.035 billion animals processed in English and Welsh slaughterhouses in 2024, an estimated 214.6 million were slaughtered to produce halal meat. The analysis shows that the proportion of meat supplied by non‑stun slaughter is about four times greater than the proportion of Muslims and Jews in the UK. Although Government guidance is clear that meat that results from non‑stun slaughter “must be intended for consumption by Jews or Muslims”, production is clearly going way beyond that, so much so that the UK now exports halal meat. Between 2018 and 2019, there was an almost 700 % increase in the volume of sheep meat exported to the United Arab Emirates, all of which is required to be halal. Clearly, without compulsory labelling of non‑stunned meat, slaughterhouses have gone down the route of producing more of it. In effect, a two‑tier system has been created, whereby some slaughterhouses comply with stunning laws and others do not, citing the religious exemption, though without ever intending to focus their sale on that market. Unfortunately, a driver of the market for non‑stunned meat is the fact that a step of the process is removed, meaning that production of non‑stunned meat is cheaper. Supermarkets and food outlets can purchase that cheaper meat without ever declaring it to the customer, which is not what was intended by the legislation. We have seen many examples of this over the last 15 years; Britain’s biggest retailers — such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Asda — have sold halal or kosher meat without informing the consumer, as have Domino’s, Pizza Hut and KFC. Non‑stunned produce is being used by 17 local councils in schools, the majority of which are not Islamic faith schools, without parents or children having the first idea about it. It is also being served in hospitals and local councils. In December, Labour put forward its much‑vaunted animal welfare strategy, a document lauded for its aim of “preventing animals suffering unnecessarily”, which included the banning of boiling live lobsters, banning the use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs, and steps to ensure the more humane slaughter of farmed fish. I was surprised and alarmed to see no mention of the more humane slaughter of animals and the labelling of halal and kosher meat. There was a clear opportunity to call for the labelling of halal and kosher meat, but it was missed. Nowhere in Labour’s 12,500‑word animal welfare strategy was it mentioned. We often hear in the House that the UK holds the status of a world leader in animal welfare, but such a glaring gap shows that this country can no longer make such a claim. Food and You 2, which is a biannual official statistic survey commissioned by the Food Standards Agency, found that the most common spontaneously expressed food concern in 2024 was “food production method”. In August 2022, almost 99 % of respondents to the Government’s call for evidence on labelling for animal welfare said that method‑of‑slaughter labelling should be introduced. In research from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, 92 % of halal consumers state that clear halal certification is important, so is it not time we updated our regulations and demanded that our meat was clearly and fully labelled, so that we know what we are buying and eating? Surely that is what consumer choice is all about, and I would wager that the overwhelming majority of animal lovers in the UK expect the House of Commons to support this Bill today. This Bill will give all consumers assurance that they know how their meat was produced. I urge all Members of the House to support this measure.”

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We import US$ 23 million chicken neck and back is what we import annually to Jamaica, close to US$13 million in beef offals, beef trimmings US$ 16 million, rice US$84 million.... You may ask why there are so many parts of an animal and rice. Most Jamaicans cannot afford chicken, beef, or fish to feed their families, so they must resort to cuts and trimmings. In other words “Di Pot a boil but di food nuh nuff.” Disclaimer: I am not in the PNP's shadow cabinet, so what I am about to say may not contend. But this is something I've been speaking and writing about for years. I would like you to think for yourself and re-examine with data some long-held beliefs that others have tried to impose on you, saying they are supposed to be in your self-interest. Today, I want to highlight and explain just one and why it is a significant reason why our people remain unhealthy with obesity, high blood pressure, and other primary health ailments. They cannot afford to buy a balanced food basket because the cost of chicken is out of their reach. For decades, Jamaica has had 250% duty protection on chicken meat. Globally, the average import duty rate on chicken in other countries is 24%, so why must it be 250% in Jamaica? (it’s actually 260%) Is this really in our people's national interest, or are we serving the interest of a very few individuals, in particular 2 companies? Before you have a knee-jerk reaction to 'yes, it helps local production," let us look at the data rather than an emotion. The International cost breakdown of a chicken is feed (largely corn) at 61%, baby chicks at 18%, housing at 7%, others at 10%, and labor at only 4%. We do not make feed in Jamaica. We don't produce corn. We don't produce wheat or soybean; the inputs that go into feed. What we refer to as feed mills in Jamaica are really big silos and a mixer that blends these imported inputs into the final product, much the same as concrete is composed of sand, stone, cement, and water. But at least in concrete, all the inputs are produced in Jamaica, so the "local " feed is a totally imported product. So, in effect, the local Jamaican direct cost input of chicken is less than 10%. Therefore, I challenge the logic of providing excessive duty protection to any product with a local input of less than 20%, much less chicken, whose input is less than 10%. All the inputs in animal feed are traded as commodities on the world market, like oil; the price fluctuates in keeping with the law of supply and demand. The price of corn has fallen from $801 (US/Bu) April 2022 ,to less than $392.50today ( Check it yourself on on straight mathematical terms with 50% reduction in the cost of feed which represents 61% of the cost input of chicken our chicken prices should have gone down by about 30%, but instead it went up. Who benefits? Certainly not the Jamaican public whose citizens find it hard to afford a whole chicken dinner, certainly not the workers at the factory whose pay remains much the same, and certainly not the Jamaican economy as there has been little or no growth in our agricultural sector generally for years. Did you know that if you apply for a permit to import a container of chicken in any form, the ministry of agriculture first refers the matter to the two chicken monopoly producers to find out if they have any objections? Tell them to challenge me on this! What do you think is their response? With that system in place, there is effectively no real competition in the marketplace. In fact there is no marketplace. You pay what the two local monopolies decide you should pay. Since it’s so obvious, you will wonder why this backward policy has continued. Well, the false theory is that we are saving the livelihood of the 30,000 small farmers. But is this really true?

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