Die Labour-Partei will die Foie Gras- und Pelzverbote zurücknehmen, um das EU-Handelsabkommen zu erleichtern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/labour-back-down-foie-gras-fur-bans-eu-trade-deal
Von No-Risk-2584
Die Labour-Partei will die Foie Gras- und Pelzverbote zurücknehmen, um das EU-Handelsabkommen zu erleichtern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/labour-back-down-foie-gras-fur-bans-eu-trade-deal
Von No-Risk-2584
13 Kommentare
Yeah, sod that. What’s next? Are we going to start labelling toxic waste as food to get a US trade deal?
This has to be a unilateral push from France. Who the fuck else cares about Fois Gras? I can’t imagine there’s much of a market for it in the UK, anyway.
if this is what we have to give for a good deal then i’m fine with it
*The government is to break a manifesto commitment to ban foie gras imports, and has declined to stop fur imports, after the EU made these red lines in its discussions for a trade deal.*
*Animal welfare charities say they are “bitterly disappointed” that ministers are failing to use powers granted by Brexit to restrict the import of these “cruel” items.*
**That’s disappointing.** It reflects very poorly on both the EU and the UK Government. One of the few benefits of Brexit was the ability to unilaterally introduce much higher animal welfare and farming standards, and impose greater environmental protections (such as our North Sea fishing restrictions/bans to help declining species recover).
The EU has not been supportive. Despite these proposed policy changes being introduced on ethical & environmental grounds, and not generating additional UK income. They have been uncharacteristically petty and selfish.
Pointless ban – it’s like a Muslim country banning pork imports. If we don’t buy it then we won’t import any anyway. Animal welfare groups should be pressuring the few restaurants here that sell it and educate people why it’s bad.
Ridiculous that animal cruelty has to be accepted for a deal here.
God what an awful thing to do to ducks. Screw whoever eats this crap
Chlorinated chicken is far better than foie gras. Foie gras is repulsive ethically
Yeah, fair enough.
This is how trade deals work. You get some things you and and some you don’t.
Foie gras isn’t all that common in France (except in the Lot and Garonne regions where it’s made), so it’s hardly likely to be a big deal in the U.K. where most people are repulsed by it.
Educate rather than legislate. No one buys these in the UK.
Well, if people are so pro animal health, there simply won’t be a market for it, will there? I remember when it was near impossible to get veal, not because it was banned in the UK but because people simply didn’t buy it on ethical grounds.
But I thought the EU always had the moral and ethical high ground?
No thanks, no deal.
I had foie gras in Asia without realising it.
No idea why the hell it’s so popular?!