Shellfish: Sales

(asked on 23rd January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 9 of the London School of Economics report Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the recommendation on wholesale and retail; and whether her Department has plans to end the sale of live decapod crustaceans by (a) Amazon and (b) other online retailers.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 26th January 2023

We are considering carefully the implications of recognising in law the sentience of decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs. The Government currently has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a ban on the sale of live decapods online.

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