Oral Answers to Questions — Animal Feed (Antibiotics)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1998.

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Photo of Gordon Prentice Gordon Prentice Labour, Pendle 12:00, 4 June 1998

The Government moved swiftly last month on the Agriculture Committee's recommendations of 22 April. However, we are very close to witnessing some kind of biological Armageddon—and that is not overstating the issue. [HON. MEMBERS: "Come off it."] Well, perhaps it is overstating the issue. But, seriously, what can we do to persuade farmers to return to more traditional methods of animal husbandry? People are sick to death of all the food scares, of the fact that we seem to have been poisoned year after year and of the fact that farmers are congenitally incapable of producing food that is safe to eat.