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Following the recently signed Free Trade Agreement with Australia, Baroness Jenny Jones of the Green Party joined FOUR PAWS UK, the RSPCA and the Trade and Animal Welfare Coalition in Parliament to highlight the harsh realities behind lower animal welfare standards being imported into the UK.
The Parliamentary reception included speeches in support of protecting UK animal welfare standards in trade policy by the Shadow Minister for Animal Welfare, Ruth Jones MP for Newport West, and Mark Pearson MP for New South Wales, Australia. MPs and Peers were shown footage collected from an Australian farm highlighting the undeniable suffering sheep endure every day and how the UK could be complicit in this cruelty.
Continue reading “Jenny supports call for core animal welfare standards in UK trade policy”
Following the recently signed Free Trade Agreement with Australia, Baroness Jenny Jones of the Green Party joined FOUR PAWS UK, the RSPCA and the Trade and Animal Welfare Coalition in Parliament to highlight the harsh realities behind lower animal welfare standards being imported into the UK.
The Parliamentary reception included speeches in support of protecting UK animal welfare standards in trade policy by the Shadow Minister for Animal Welfare, Ruth Jones MP for Newport West, and Mark Pearson MP for New South Wales, Australia. MPs and Peers were shown footage collected from an Australian farm highlighting the undeniable suffering sheep endure every day and how the UK could be complicit in this cruelty.
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Trade, minimum standards and no genocide please
The House of Lords has once again stood firm as a voice of morality and reason as this government seeks to reject any imposition of minimum standards when making trade deals. The Lords has become a major source of opposition to this government as Conservative and independent peers regularly find themselves at odds with the right wing cabal that operates from Downing Street.
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 