Foie gras and badger culling would be banned under Labour proposals
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#3FVFA)
Other animal welfare proposals include mandatory CCTV in abattoirs and post-Brexit safeguards
Foie gras and badger culling would be banned under new animal welfare measures proposed by the Labour party, in a move described by activists as "the beginning of the end of cruel factory farming".
The practice of force-feeding geese and ducks in order to fatten up their livers is widely considered cruel and inhumane, leading Labour to advocate an end to imports of the delicacy in a new policy document released on Wednesday.
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