Top chefs back law for planet-friendly farming11 November 2010
Top UK restaurants are backing the Sustainable Livestock Bill for planet-friendly farming being debated in Parliament this week.
The 6 restaurants are in the top 10 of the Good Food Guide 2011.
They all support a new law that would help prevent UK meat and dairy production from destroying rainforests and leading to massive climate-changing emissions.
The Sustainable Livestock Bill is being debated in Parliament on Friday 12 November.
You can help by asking your MP to back rainforest-free food.
Top chefs
The chefs who have joined the campaign are at:
- Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons (Great Milton,Oxfordshire)
- L'Enclume (Cartmel, Cumbria)
- Restaurant Nathan Outlaw (Rock, Cornwall)
- Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms (Nottingham)
- Pied-à-Terre (London)
- The Square (London).
Simon Rogan (pictured) of L'Enclume said the new law would "help to save important rainforests and ensure a humane and thriving future for farming in the UK".
All my working life I have encouraged my own chefs to reconnect with one's sense of place and land and to rediscover our own crafts. It is common sense.
Raymond Blanc, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons
Why we need a new farming law
A new law would:
- Protect rainforests by swapping imported soy animal feed for home-grown alternatives
- Free up agricultural land in poorer countries to grow food crops for local people
- Increase public information campaigns
- Boost efforts to reduce food waste - including 775 truckloads of meat and dairy waste each year
- Provide greener food for schools, hospitals and care-homes.
Ask your MP to vote
Our research has exposed the damage UK factory farming is having on forests in South America.
We need as many MPs as possible to vote on the Sustainable Livestock Bill to stop the devastation.
Please ask your MP to attend on Friday 12 November to back rainforest-free food.
© Simon Rogan
