Farmers call on UK to commit in law to ban chlorinated chicken

Government must put down a red line' in the agriculture bill, says NFU president

The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has called on the UK government to make a legal commitment to ban chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef from supermarket shelves.

In advance of new agriculture legislation, the NFU president, Minette Batters, said she was not demanding that imported chickens should luxuriate in 10ft-high straw beds" but that the UK's high standards of animal welfare should be imposed on imports.