The public will also be urged to eat venison from slaughtered deer that would otherwise be rejected.
Deer hunters will be encouraged to sell carcasses of animals that are killed after a shoot, which can then become “wild deer of responsible origin,” according to the strategy.
Animal welfare notices on menus
Pubs and restaurants may be required to warn customers about animal welfare on menus if they use factory-raised meat.
Monday’s food strategy will announce plans to increase the “transparency of food data,” which means retailers will send data on the sustainability, health and animal welfare of their products to a government portal to name and shame. bad practices.
But plans could also see changes to food labeling requirements to “help consumers identify when products meet or exceed our high UK animal welfare standards”.
The system could work similarly to recent plans to put calorie counting on menus.
Meals that are served in public spaces such as schools, prisons and hospitals can also be told that 50% of their products must come from local farms or must comply with high standards of environmental protection, in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of public sector meals.
The announcement also sets out how countries signing post-Brexit trade agreements with the UK could receive preferential terms if they supply meat from farms with high animal welfare standards.
“Those wishing to enter the UK market must objectively demonstrate that their approach offers an equivalent level of health protection to our national standards,” he said, noting plans for a more generous liberalization of certified products such as certain key animal welfare criteria specified in the agreement ”.
Migrant workers will be replaced by robots
Johnson is also expected to announce plans to address the shortage of migrant workers that is reducing food security in the UK.
Ministers are concerned that, since Brexit, many farms have been unable to fill seasonal vacancies for poultry preparation and fruit picking due to strict migrant labor requirements.
The strategy is scheduled to announce that poultry workers will be eligible for a Temporary Migrant Visa, which is currently only available to foreign horticultural and pork butchery staff.