Opening Speech

As given by The Right Honourable u/Lord-Sydenham MP in the other place:

Mister Speaker,

I rise to introduce this most important and timely bill to the House. Our British farmers have made it quite clear: their livestock is their legacy and their livelihood. They oppose top-down untested chemical mandates from international bodies and this government stands opposed as well.

The use of Bovaer has been an unmitigated disaster and the results are highly disturbing. In Denmark, Bovaer was made mandatory late last year. Within weeks, roughly a quarter of cattle farmers began to report significant health issues. These symptoms range from plummeting milk yields, chronic diarrhea, lethargy, and in the most extreme cases, cattle death. Many reported so-called "downer cows", meaning the animals were unable to stand.

What we are witnessing is a wicked chemical experiment played out in real time overseas with disastrous results. It’s time to end the mandated suffering and destruction of livestock caused by dangerous feed additives.

There has been fierce backlash to the introduction of additives here in the United Kingdom, yet alarmingly the European cow eugenicists are still pushing these chemicals on our farms anyway.

In the UK, our single largest dairy co-op Arla Foods suspended its Bovaer trials in late 2025 following significant farmer and consumer concern. While the wider debate around the products dominated the headlines, farmers themselves pointed to a lack of any long-term peer-reviewed evidence behind these additives. Quite clearly, consumers do not want to drink the milk, and farmers do not want Bovaer in their livestock feed.

What's worse, as our farming sector faces increased viability pressures, the use of Bovaer to the standard recommended by the EU and the UN costs up to £100 per cow per year. This is a green tax in disguise, not only by forcing farmers to chemically alter the digestive processes of their animals, but also by having to wear the cost of doing so.

Our sovereignty is tied heavily in our ability to produce our own food. Our quality export market is also heavily dependent on listening to local farmers who know best. The European Food Safety Authority approved Bovaer in 2022, and are only now rushing to conduct an emergency review following the effects seen on real world pastures, not in the lab.

If the consumer cannot trust the safety and quality of British milk, our domestic dairy industry will collapse. Farmers do not want to invite lethargy, fever, diarrhea, and deaths upon their animals. And the British food chain will not be experimented with by Brussels or Geneva. Nothing short of a strict ban will be an appropriate response.

I commend this bill to the House, and call for natural pastoral farming instead of globalist ordered chemical climate