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World Vegan Day

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

534 c895-904 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

James Paice | 534 c902 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that. The hon. Member for Bristol East reeled off a list of vegan organisations,...

Chris Williamson | 534 c901-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that diet and avoiding obesity are the responsibility of individuals. Does he not ...

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James Paice | 534 c902-3 (Link to this contribution) I cannot tell the hon. Lady that precisely. Such matters are the responsibilities of the Health Educ...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c902 (Link to this contribution) This section of the Minister's speech sounds like filler to avoid talking about the issues I have ra...

James Paice | 534 c900 (Link to this contribution) May I genuinely congratulate the hon. Lady on taking the opportunity to raise the issue of vegans on...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c900 (Link to this contribution) They are piled on top of one another.

James Paice | 534 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to give way, as I do not have much time left. I go back to my starting point of ...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c895-6 (Link to this contribution) I start by expressing my sympathy for the Minister tonight. It can never be much fun doing the late ...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that in a moment. The World Cancer Research Fund carried out an authoritative study w...

Jim Shannon | 534 c897 (Link to this contribution) How would the hon. Lady respond to the statement by my GP and many others that we need a balanced di...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c898-900 (Link to this contribution) That is true. As I said, I have been a vegan for nearly 20 years. My hon. Friend the Member for Kilm...

Cathy Jamieson | 534 c898 (Link to this contribution) Just before my hon. Friend moves off her point about balanced diets, will she tell us—perhaps for th...

Lord Hart of Tenby | 534 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Lady point to any peer-reviewed science to support her allegation about the UK livestoc...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c897 (Link to this contribution) I am about to cite some scientific research on the health case, and I also have some very authoritat...

Lord Hart of Tenby | 534 c897 (Link to this contribution) So is the hon. Lady saying that the assertions she has made about agricultural practices are a perso...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c897 (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure which practices the hon. Gentleman is referring to. If he is talking about the a...

Chris Williamson | 534 c896 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the case for eating less meat or becoming vegan is reinforced by the ...

James Paice | 534 c900-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is saying something from a sedentary position—I will need to get this on the record, M...

Kerry McCarthy | 534 c896 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, and I will come to the environmental and food security case fo...

Subjects

Animal welfare Diets Food Meat Veganism

Link

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