The public will also be urged to eat venison from destroyed deer that would otherwise be discarded.
Deer stalkers will be encouraged to sell carcasses to animals that are killed after a shot, which can then become “responsibly harvested wild deer meat”, according to the strategy.
Animal welfare warnings on the menus
Pubs and restaurants may be forced to warn customers about animal welfare on their menus if they use factory-raised meat.
The Food Strategy on Monday will announce plans to increase “food data transparency” by involving retailers to submit sustainability, health and animal welfare data on their products to a government portal to name and disgrace bad practices.
But the plans may also see changes to food labeling requirements to “help consumers identify when products meet or exceed our high standards of animal welfare in the UK.”
The system may work in a similar way to recent plans to put the number of calories in menus.
For meals served in public places such as schools, prisons and hospitals, it can also be said that 50 per cent of their products must come either from local farms or meet high environmental standards in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of public sector food.
The communication also sets out how countries that sign post-Brexit trade agreements with the UK can receive preferential terms if they supply meat that comes from farms with high animal welfare standards.
“Those who want to gain access to the UK market must objectively demonstrate that their approach provides an equivalent level of health protection to our internal standards,” it said, citing plans for more generous product liberalization. certified as meeting certain key animal welfare criteria set out in an agreement ”.
Migrant workers will be replaced by robots
Mr Johnson is also expected to announce plans to address the shortage of migrant workers, which reduces Britain’s food security.
Ministers are concerned that after Brexit, many farms are unable to fill seasonal vacancies for poultry and fruit picking due to strict migrant labor requirements.
The strategy aims to declare that poultry workers will be eligible for a seasonal visa for migrants, which is currently only available to foreign employees in horticulture and pork slaughter.
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