Labour to back down on foie gras and fur bans to ease EU trade deal | Exclusive: Animal welfare charities ‘bitterly disappointed’ that Labour plans to backtrack on manifesto commitments

In the name of EU rules which regulate animal welfare but don’t allow nations within agreements to ban products from countries within the agreement from banning imports compliant products from other countries within that agreement. Tbh the furore about foie gras is overblown. I stumbled across a foie gras farm in the Pyrenees once, massive open gorgeous pen with geese waddling round with endless room and the most beautiful terrain, suddenly realised that they all looked really quite plump and then clocked it. If I had to pick the life of one of these geese or a KFC chicken’s, I wouldn’t need to think for one moment. These are obviously the extremes of the spectrum, but it’s just worth saying that a lot of folks who are aghast at foie gras don’t realise quite how bad much of poultry farming is. Like gavage is clearly morally challenging, but not much more so than chickens too far from the automatic feeder ending up underfed and getting pecked to death. I’m certainly not sure how one can be viewed as immeasurably kinder than the other.

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