Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 23 Feb 2015
Animal Welfare (Non-stun Slaughter)
"The debate has quite rightly focused on animal welfare. I have to say that those who believe in methods associated with religious slaughter are equally concerned with animal welfare. I am not Jewish, but, representing Finchley and Golders Green, I have taken a great deal of time to understand the …..."Mike Freer - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 23 Feb 2015
Animal Welfare (Non-stun Slaughter)
"The hon. Gentleman is right. Religious communities feel that they are under threat and that they are being made to feel unwelcome. However, I should put the issue in context: some, but not all, and certainly not the majority, are using animal welfare as a flag of convenience. That is …..."Mike Freer - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Nov 2014
Animal Slaughter (Religious Methods)
"I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Neil Parish) for the report and for securing the debate. I read the report and was pleasantly surprised, because it was not what I was expecting. It is balanced, although I take issue with several points in it.
Before …..."Mike Freer - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Nov 2014
Animal Slaughter (Religious Methods)
"The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The campaign against religious slaughter is remarkably narrow. If someone is against slaughter, they should be against all slaughter, because neither method is humane from the point of view of the cow, lamb or chicken.
Before we saw the slaughter, I spent some …..."Mike Freer - View Speech
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Written Question
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Tuesday 8th April 2014
Asked by:
Mike Freer (Conservative - Finchley and Golders Green)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the reporting of the mis-stunning of animals before slaughter by the Food Standards Agency to ensure that the way in which the data is collected provides as accurate a picture as possible of the real situation.
Answered by George Eustice
Official Veterinarians of the Food Standards Agency report centrally all cases of non-compliances with the welfare at slaughter regulations. This data provides an accurate picture of welfare breaches at slaughterhouses.
The Welfare at Time of Killing Regulations will come into force next month and we will keep the effectiveness of monitoring and enforcement at slaughterhouses under review.
Written Question
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Tuesday 1st April 2014
Asked by:
Mike Freer (Conservative - Finchley and Golders Green)
Question
to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission a study on measures to accurately record incidences of mis-stunning in abattoirs.
Answered by George Eustice
The Food Standards Agency already records instances of mis-stunning in slaughterhouses, so a study in this area is unnecessary. Details were given by the Minister for Public Health on 24 March 2014 : Column 132W – 134W.
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