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Bob Russell Excerpts
Thursday 17th July 2014

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Eustice Portrait George Eustice
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I entirely agree. There is a clear legal definition of “stunned” in EU law, namely that stunning renders the animal insensible to pain immediately. In the case of halal, some 90% of poultry and lambs have been stunned, and we should recognise that fact.

Bob Russell Portrait Sir Bob Russell (Colchester) (LD)
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Consumers are entitled to know exactly what is going on. Does the Minister agree that what we need in all our slaughterhouses is CCTV to give them that further assurance?