HARD BREXIT WILL BE DISASTROUS FOR THE EUROPEAN MEAT INDUSTRY, SAYS UECBV

A ‘NO deal’ or ‘hard Brexit’ scenario when the UK leaves the European Union (EU) on March 29, 2019, will be catastrophic for the European meat and livestock sector – eliminating jobs, increasing consumer prices and destroying the livelihood of small business owners, Europe’s top meat sector association has warned. “Brexit is a disaster,” the UECBV (the European Livestock and Meat Trades Union) secretary general Jean-Luc Meriaux told GlobalMeatNews before releasing its report ‘The EU Meat Industry in a Hard Brexit Scenario: Crisis’ today ...


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