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EXCLUSIVE - Ann Davies: "If we support locally produced food, we will import less"

Caerfyrddin MP Ann Davies writes on the unsustainable drop in dairy prices, farmers being treated as bargaining chips in trade deals, and why maintaining British farmers' high-quality food standards must be codified into law to stop lower welfare food from entering the UK

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Plaid Cymru MP Ann Davies said: "Establishing clear, enforceable animal welfare and environmental core standards would ensure that all food, whether home-grown or imported, meets the expectations of British consumers."
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Plaid Cymru MP Ann Davies said: "Establishing clear, enforceable animal welfare and environmental core standards would ensure that all food, whether home-grown or imported, meets the expectations of British consumers."

Farming has never been a fair-weather profession, and as a dairy and sheep farmer from west Wales, I know all too well how quickly the ground can shift beneath us. Markets rise and fall, but the volatility...

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