date:May 28, 2012
tect them. We consume steak and burgers without any assurance that the animals used to produce them have been treated properly.
Without our own EU-wide standards we are in a very weak negotiating position to demand equivalence for the increasing amounts of imported meat coming from countries such as Brazil or Argentina.
The European Commission can no longer bury its head in the sand. The Council of Europe produced recommendations for the keeping of cattle as far back as 1988 and still they have