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Food labelling
November 2011
Action success for farm animals
Euro MPs vote for clearer labelling on meat products
Thank you to everyone who contacted their Member of the European Parliament (MEP) urging them to vote to improve consumer information about animal welfare.
Amendment 359 to the EU Consumer Regulation which calls for meat products to be labelled when animals have not been stunned before slaughter, was supported by the majority of MEPs in the Environment Committee during a vote on Tuesday 19 April.
We must now wait for the Amendment to go to a full EU Parliament vote in July 2011. However, with your continued support we will ensure the labelling regulation becomes law.
Currently meat is not labelled whether the animal was stunned before slaughter or not. Stunning is a process that causes animals to lose consciousness making them insensible to pain and suffering when they are killed for meat. This proposed amendment in the European Parliament will ensure that meat will be clearly labelled ‘…slaughter without stunning’ when this process has not occurred. This will ensure consumers can make an informed choice when shopping.
The RSPCA believes that all meat produced from animals that have not been stunned before slaughter should be clearly labelled in some way, so that it can be identified by consumers. The RSPCA believes that consumers have the right to choose whether or not they wish to buy animals slaughtered without pre-stunning.
Thank you for your support and we will keep you posted on this important campaign.
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