UK farmers have savaged the agreement as unfair and complained that Australia’s less strict animal welfare rules put them at a disadvantage | latikambourke
While poultry and eggs were not included, critics said revelations Australia will continue to use battery cages for egg-laying hens for up to 25 years after they were first banned in the UK proved their criticisms were valid.Angus MacNeil, who chairs the Commons Trade Committee, took aim at comments made by Agriculture Minister Murray Watt, who said allowing the continued use of battery cages should reassure Australia’s international trade partners.
“And the fact that they try and sweeten this by saying it is to 2036 gives the game away – they are doing wrong and Australia knows they are doing wrong because what will be so different in 2037?” he said. “In the poultry sector, since 2012 the use of conventional cage systems in the UK has been banned and we have national legislation in place governing the welfare of our laying hens.
The fresh criticisms come amid a political row over animal welfare standards that’s surfaced during the ongoing Tory leadership contest between Liz Truss, who signed the UK’s first brand new trade deal after Brexit with Australia, and Rishi Sunak, who has said the agreement left British farmers shortchanged.
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