PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
NOT IN MY CUPPA AND COWS BELONG IN FIELDS CAMPAIGNS (2 November 2010)

That this House welcomes campaigns such as Not In My Cuppa and Cows Belong In Fields to oppose the establishment of intensive dairy units such as that proposed by Nocton Dairies Ltd in Lincolnshire; congratulates the unprecedented collaboration of groups such as the World Society for the Protection of Animals, Compassion in World Farming, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Friends of the Earth and the Soil Association to work together to oppose such proposals; believes such proposals threaten to take British dairy farming in the wrong direction; acknowledges the latest MORI poll which shows a majority of the British public do not want to drink factory milk from battery cows; and calls on the Government urgently to review their welfare code for cows to ensure such industrial-sized dairies are not approved in the absence of welfare regulations that take into account such an unprecedented change in the way cows are farmed in the UK.

Sponsored by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)