Brexit and EDM1963 Dear Mr Pursglove I see you voted against the government’s Brexit deal yesterday evening. I assume that you will be voting against the No Confidence motion today. I think you will be on the winning side again. But just for the record, your views on Brexit and mine are poles apart. I…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Guest blog – Ban Lead Ammunition by Caroline Lucas MP
Lead is a highly toxic substance. It poses huge risks to human and animal health. That’s why it has been banned from petrol, paints, and various household items in many countries across the world, including in the UK. There is however still a glaring omission in these prohibitions: lead is still widely used in ammunition…
Waitrose you are rubbish!
I wrote to Waitrose on 26 November and they haven’t been able to come up with a response in all that time – just this … Dear Dr Avery Please accept my apologies on my behalf my colleague for incorrectly addressing you. I’ve asked our technical team if they have anything further to add and…
Waitrose lack of response
Email sent to Waitrose early this morning. It’s Dr Avery not Mr Avery. I first contacted you about this matter on 26 November – I have not had any substantive response except that you are thinking about it. I know I am not alone in having contacted you. You have been ‘thinking about it’ for…
Waitrose playing an odd game
Waitrose has been selling game meat with inaccurate health warnings in their stores for over five weeks and has so far failed to correct their errors. But the supermarket has cooperated with a so-called news story in the Telegraph promoting game meat sales. It doesn’t look good when a large company is oh so slow…
Waitrose – is there anyone there?
Waitrose has known for over 5 weeks (and should have known anyway) that they are offering for sale game meat with misleading health warnings over lead content. And yet they haven’t yet done anything about it. If they had come back to me and politely said ‘Go away!’ I’d have been more impressed than the…
Still waiting for Waitrose
This Pheasant-meat meal was on sale with an inaccurate health warning in my local Waitrose on Christmas Eve – I went and did most of the little necessary pre-Christmas shopping in Lidl and noticed how much cheaper it was for some of the brands I wanted… I’m not sure why it takes a large retailer…
Lead-free venison from Scotland
I have written before about how those in charge of our state forests are leading on taking out the lead (Pb) from ammunition. FC England were definitely in the lead (see here) but FC Scotand were not far behind (see here). Here is the Forest Enterprise Scotland position on use of lead ammunition – Waitrose…
Waitrose – are you BTO members?
Waitrose is still selling game meat to the public weeks after being told that the health warning it is displaying is inaccurate. For a leading supermarket which claims high environmental credentials for itself, it is behaving badly. What Waitrose claims on its website … … and it’s a bit difficult to see how selling game…
Waitrose – you are dragging your heels
A week ago Waitrose emailed me to wish me a good weekend and to say they were looking into the inaccurate health warning on the game meat they are selling to the public. Another week and no change in Waitrose’s position as far as I know. I contacted Waitrose nearly three weeks ago and I…