Human health and factory farming, 1979

Submitted by: Barnet & District  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, having regard to the hazards to human health caused by some present methods of intensive livestock production, urges the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to examine...

Prevention of food-borne disease, 1980

Submitted by: The Health Special Committee  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, recommends to the D.H.S.S. that all premises where food is to be prepared, sold or eaten should be licensed and inspected by Environmental Health Officers prior to...

Aerial crop spraying, 1981

Submitted by: Women’s Farm & Garden Association  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, urges HM Government to establish legislation restricting the use of aerial crop spraying where the crop to be sprayed is less than five hundred metres from...

Water content in meat, 1981

Submitted by: The Consumer Affairs Special Committee  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, urges the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to ban the use in fresh meat of Polyphosphates, Protein Isolates and other substances in solution,...

Rating of intensive livestock units, 1984

Submitted by: The Animal Welfare Special Committee  The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, urges Her Majesty’s Government to make intensive livestock units where animals are permanently housed subject to rates in the same way as other industrial...