Discussion Series: Animal Welfare
This discussion paper focuses on ensuring animals are treated fairly in our food system, and the impact animal welfare has on human health and our environment.
The Scottish Government has set out its ambition that Scotland becomes a Good Food Nation, a country where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they buy, serve, and eat day by day. To deliver this vision the government will launch a consultation on a Good Food Nation Bill during 2017. As part of this process, it has committed to drawing on the expertise of civic society to develop and implement its good food policy.
This discussion paper has been produced by Nourish Scotland and Compassion in World Farming as part of our work with the Scottish Food Coalition. We believe the Good Food Nation Bill has the potential to deliver real change in the food system; one that delivers high levels of well-being, social justice and environmental stewardship now and for future generations.
This discussion paper focuses on ensuring animals are treated fairly in our food system, and the impact animal welfare has on human health and our environment. Following on from the Scottish Food Coalition’s publication, Plenty: Food Farming and Health in a New Scotland, this is one of a series of discussion papers which explores cross-cutting issues relating to food, forming part of the Scottish Food Coalition’s contribution to a national Good Food Conversation.