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The 'Meat and Livestock Commission', (MLC), was setup by the UK Government under the Agriculture Act 1967 with Government money with the remit to promote the sale of red meat. The MLC is a Non-Departmental Public Body and is still monitored by the Government.
The MLC's income derives from a levy on every slaughtered carcass with additional funding directly from the Government and has an annual budget of £42 million for marketing and advertising [1] to promote meat to the British population. [2]
The MLC's remit is to ''"work with the British meat and livestock industry (cattle, sheep and pigs) to improve its efficiency and competitive position"'' and ''"to maintain and stimulate markets for British meat at home and abroad, while taking into account the needs of consumers."'' [3]
In 2000 alone, the Meat and Livestock Commission and the Government jointly funded a £4.6 million ad campaign to promote British pig meat. [2]
In 2006 the British arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) unveiled a poster [5] linking eating meat with child abuse. [6] The MLC branded the poster ''"irresponsible"''. However, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) agreed that PETA can continue to place ads expressing this point of view. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/feat-feedingkids.asp, stating that ''“While we recognised that some viewers would find the text used in the ad inappropriate, we understood that PETA had intended to convey that, in their opinion, feeding meat to children, and thereby exposing them to potentially harmful influences, was tantamount to abuse”''. [7]
★ English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX)
★ Single Payment Scheme
1. The Silent Ark by Juliet Gellatley with Tony Wardle
2. http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pigs/pigreport05.htm
3. http://www.mlc.org.uk/aboutMLC/default.asp
4. http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pigs/pigreport05.htm
5. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/buttons/240-FeedngKidsAd.jpg
6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5415564.stm
7. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/feat-feedingkids.asp
★ MLC Official Site
★ About the MLC
| Contents |
| Funding |
| Meat promotion |
| Controversy |
| See also |
| Notes |
| External links |
Funding
The MLC's income derives from a levy on every slaughtered carcass with additional funding directly from the Government and has an annual budget of £42 million for marketing and advertising [1] to promote meat to the British population. [2]
Meat promotion
The MLC's remit is to ''"work with the British meat and livestock industry (cattle, sheep and pigs) to improve its efficiency and competitive position"'' and ''"to maintain and stimulate markets for British meat at home and abroad, while taking into account the needs of consumers."'' [3]
In 2000 alone, the Meat and Livestock Commission and the Government jointly funded a £4.6 million ad campaign to promote British pig meat. [2]
Controversy
In 2006 the British arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) unveiled a poster [5] linking eating meat with child abuse. [6] The MLC branded the poster ''"irresponsible"''. However, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) agreed that PETA can continue to place ads expressing this point of view. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/feat-feedingkids.asp, stating that ''“While we recognised that some viewers would find the text used in the ad inappropriate, we understood that PETA had intended to convey that, in their opinion, feeding meat to children, and thereby exposing them to potentially harmful influences, was tantamount to abuse”''. [7]
See also
★ English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX)
★ Single Payment Scheme
Notes
1. The Silent Ark by Juliet Gellatley with Tony Wardle
2. http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pigs/pigreport05.htm
3. http://www.mlc.org.uk/aboutMLC/default.asp
4. http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pigs/pigreport05.htm
5. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/buttons/240-FeedngKidsAd.jpg
6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5415564.stm
7. http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/feat-feedingkids.asp
External links
★ MLC Official Site
★ About the MLC
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