Symbol copyright Getty Pictures Symbol caption Geese being raised for foie gras production in Bulgaria
A luxury French food made by power-feeding ducks or ducks may well be banned from being imported to the united kingdom after Brexit, a minister has hinted.
British farmers are banned from generating foie gras – which means fatty liver – on cruelty grounds.
But eating places and retail outlets are allowed to import the pate-like substance below EUROPEAN loose-marketplace rules.
Environment Minister George Eustice informed MPs that might change when Britain left the european, in March next year.
He was responding to a choice from Conservative Henry Smith, who instructed MPs foie gras was once “merciless to supply, unhealthy to devour and it’s pricey to purchase” and it used to be time to prohibit “this outdated practice”.
Symbol copyright Getty Images 98% of duck foie gras imports to the united kingdom come from France France produced about EIGHTY THREE% of the world’s duck foie gras and 25% of its goose foie gras, MPs had been told Manufacturing is banned in some ECU member states however it remains to be produced in Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Belgium India become the primary u . s . a . to prohibit foie gras imports in 2014 Many UNITED KINGDOM shops have banned the sale of foie gras, together with Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose – and each Houses of Parliament However it is still to be had to shop for online and is served in pubs and restaurants 
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French legislation states that foie gras “belongs to the safe cultural and gastronomical background of France”, Farming Minister George Eustice told MPs.
“While we’re a member of the european Union, as Mr Smith pointed out, we’re required to observe law which places regulations at the advent of measures that impair the movement of products within the european marketplace.”
But, he stated: “once we leave the ecu Union, we do certainly have a possibility to appear at restrictions on gross sales alongside the lines that Mr Smith talked about.”
Mr Eustice brought there have been no boundaries to an “moral ban” on imports underneath Global Trade Agency regulations, and some nations, comparable to India, had brought one in.
