At last, some movement on food labelling

Many schemes are voluntary and they often tend to infer animal welfare benefits from the method involved in the production process rather than the actual measurable welfare of the animals themselves. The consumer is left uncertain about how the specific 'inputs', such as housing, space, feed and management practices lead to improved outcomes in terms of the health, physical condition and behaviour of the animals. Last week at Westminster, we discussed ideas with other major stakeholders in a forum on method of production and slaughter labelling hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW), chaired by Lord Trees.