Skip to main content
Site logo

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About Zac
  • News
  • In Parliament
  • Contact
  • Gallery
  • Archive
Site logo

Zac highlights importance of pig welfare

  • Tweet
Monday, 3 December, 2018
  • Westminster News
Zac Goldsmith MP Pig Business and Farms not Factories

Zac joined campaigners Tracy Worcester, Gizzi Erskine, Philip Lymery, actor Jerome Flynn as well as animal welfare NGOs at a parliamentary event he hosted on pig welfare.

A campaign launch by the group Farms Not Factories opposes the construction of intensive pig farms in Northern Ireland. Zac’s event saw the screening of a film which highlighted the problems for pig welfare caused by poor quality, intensive farming.

Zac’s own speech highlighted the UK’s proud role as a world leader in animal welfare and the need to better incentivise high welfare farming, including through the Government’s Agriculture Bill, which will replace the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy of farm subsidies and see farmers paid on the basis on the public goods they provide – such as high animal welfare – rather than the amont of land they own.

You may also be interested in

Animal Welfare

Zac Goldsmith addressing the United Nations Water Summit, March 2023

Thursday, 30 March, 2023

Zac Goldsmith addressing the United Nations Water Summit, March 2023
(Subtitles can be activated when Zac Goldsmith starts speaking)

 

 

Show only

  • MP Archive: Local News
  • Westminster News
  • Video
  • Articles
  • Speeches
  • Speeches in Parliament

Zac Goldsmith

Footer

  • About RSS
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • About Zac
  • In the Lords
Latest news and campaigns from Lord Zac Goldsmith.
Copyright 2023 Zac Goldsmith . All rights reserved.
Powered by Bluetree