Written by Tom Allen-Stevens
With Britain now outside the EU, a row has erupted over food standards and how these may be compromised in a trade deal. Tom Allen-Stevens tracks its progress to date. Pressure is building on the UK government to bring in laws to protect food standards, now that the UK sits outside the EU. The issue over free trade and the effect this would have on UK food and farming standards dominated much of the discussion at conferences and in mainstream media throughout January. A number of sessions of the Oxford Farming Conference on 8 Jan set the scene for what became an emotively charged topic. In a curious twist, it was NFU president Minette Batters who delivered the first address of the politics briefing, rather than the Defra Secretary of State, and she put “world-class, sustainable food production” centre stage. Minette Batters delivered an opening salvo at the Oxford Farming Conference, stressing the importance of food standards. “There is nothing more important to our economy, to our health, to our environment than the very food that we eat,” was her opening salvo. She said 2020 would be about “getting Brexit right”, noting that 12 months earlier she had committed UK…
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