MEPS PUSH COMMON EU MEAT WELFARE STANDARDS PLAN
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMBITIOUS proposals to ban the sale of European Union (EU) reared meat in all 27 member states where livestock has suffered from poor welfare have been tabled by the European Parliament's agriculture committee. Advising the European Commission to swiftly draft a new 'action plan on the protection and welfare of animals' for 2011-2015, MEPs said: "The EU ought as soon as possible to adopt a strong general animal welfare law which accords animals the right to a life worth living..." It should prevent "any producer [offering] animal ...
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