12th September 2019
Our food supplies at threat from Brexit warn experts in the Forest of Dean
The EU supports our farms in the Forest of Dean and secures our food.
Three quarters of our imported food and drink comes from EU countries and would become more expensive if we leave the Single Market and Customs Union.
Robert Purdie, former National Farmer’s Union (NFU) secretary in Cinderford says “without this support, everyone in the food industry will suffer economically – whether in large dairy or small organic, whether Coleford’s Ribena worker or the Forest’s sheep badger.
His warnings are echoed by Dr Sylvia Wilson, MRCVS, Forest vet, who asserts strict standards keep our food of the highest quality and “in the EU, we enjoy the highest standard of food production and animal welfare. Importing food from outside the EU makes diseases like Food and Mouth and Swine flu much more likely”.
“Forest of Dean for Europe” is spreading these salutary words in a new leaflet to be widely delivered in the Forest of Dean constituency. The distribution will begin at the Onion Fayre in Newent this Saturday.