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Benn calls for clearer food labelling |
Supermarkets and food companies have been urged to give shoppers clearer information on where their food comes from.
Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, Environment Minister Hilary Benn urged people to "buy more British and eat more British". He stated: "When you buy a car you know its service history. When you buy a house you get a detailed survey. So why do we accept knowing so much less about what we are putting into our bodies?"
He continued: "Under current European regulations, a pork pie processed in Britain from Danish pork can legitimately be labelled as a British pie. That's a nonsense and it needs to change."
Benn plans to meet food industry representatives to discuss how they could "get ahead here by voluntarily introducing country of origin labelling.
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