date:Jan 05, 2013
The UK should ban pork and pork products which do not comply with the EU sow stall ban introduced on January 1, a leading Scottish farmer told the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday.
Jim McLaren, former National Farmers Union Scotland president, told the conference: We should not allow non-compliant pigmeat into compliant EU states.
Unless a ban was implemented, McLaren warned the problems experienced with the import of eggs and egg products produced from illegal battery cages would be repeat