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"Mr President, labelling processed meat and dairy products with the country of processing, but not of production, is both misleading to consumers and unfair to farmers. To say mandatory labelling challenges competition ignores the fact that British farmers face unfair competition from wrongly labelled products, according to the FSA, amounting to GBPÂ seven billion of lost income last year, or 10% of the food on British shelves.
I was proud to launch the Red Tractor Mark in East Anglia and my constituent, who is its Vice-Chair, a farmer on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, believes that he and other farmers are undermined by the current voluntary scheme. Instead, the Commission should be helping to tackle this food fraud, supporting the new environmental technologies to test food authenticity, such those developed by the University of East Anglia, and like the former Labour Government in my own country, which backed local food hubs in Ongar in Essex, and Woburn in Bedfordshire, also in my constituency, the Commission should recognise the environmental benefit of local purchasing. The time for mandatory labelling is now: for consumers, for farmers, and for the planet."@en1
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