Public Boycott Of Veal

EDM number 439 in 1994-95, proposed by Alan Williams on 20/01/1995.

That this House, recognising that the farming industry is intent on ignoring the public abhorrence at the cruelty of torturing calves in veal crates, and that the public cannot differentiate veal produced by this method from that produced by alternatives, calls for a public boycott of all veal; asks consumer organisations to mobilise their members and their publicity machines in support of this boycott and asks them to try to enlist the support of their counterparts in other EC countries; invites all supermarket chains to declare whether they will continue to sell veal or not; calls upon the public to refuse veal in butchers' shops and in restaurants; and believes that only by such methods farmers throughout Europe will begin to acknowledge that it is in their own interests to stop the use of veal crates.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs, 16 of these signatures have been withdrawn.