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Home arrow Holyrood news arrow News categories arrow Rural Affairs & Environment (HCL06) arrow Minister welcomes return to livestock normality
Minister welcomes return to livestock normality Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

The pace of the Scottish livestock and meat industry’s return to normal operations after restrictions imposed after foot and mouth outbreaks south of the Border were lifted has been praised by Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Richard Lochhead. 

After three weeks in which nearly all livestock movement in the UK was prohibited after the discovery of foot and mouth in Surrey, Scottish producers have taken just days to begin shipping meat and stock to Europe.

Lochhead said:

“With the ban on the export of live animals and meat to Europe only being lifted last Thursday, today has seen the wagons rolling out of Scotland with our top quality Scottish produce. Scotbeef, Bridge of Allan, has a consignment of lamb on the way to France tonight and other companies are gearing up to send quality Scottish beef, lamb and pork to France, Holland and Italy by the end of the week.

“The normal weekly programme of livestock markets has resumed already with markets today at St Boswells, Lanark and Orkney. In the coming weeks, markets will be held the length and breadth of Scotland with large numbers of sheep coming forward. There is a lot more to do to get fully back in business but today has been a tremendous illustration of how Scotland's livestock industry can pull together.”
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1. Livestock normality
Libby Anderson, Unregistered
Supporting the meat trade is one thing, but re-opening the live export market means the resumption of the trade in young male dairy calves to mainland Europe, where they will be reared in barren systems that would be prohibited in the UK on welfare grounds. To get there, they must undergo a lengthy road journey and ferry voyage. In the first year of this trade following the lifting of the BSE-related export ban, 12,000 very young calves travelled from Scotland to be reared as veal, out of a UK total of 80,000. A number of Scottish MPs, including two SNP MPs, signed a Westminster EDM deploring this trade and calling for an end to it. We should not be too jubilant over the resumption of live exports.
Posted 2007-08-28 20:24:41
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