EUROPEAN UNION FINANCES PROMOTION OF A SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE

Dateline: 27th January 1998

The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s whose major shareholder David Sainsbury gave £400,000 to the European Movement has received finance from the European Commission to promote British beef (which the EU says is too dangerous to export) in full page, full colour advertisements.

Both the European Commission and the Advocate General of the so-called ‘European Court of Justice’ have condemned British beef as dangerous. They have banned British beef exports not only to Europe but to anywhere in the world in order:

‘To protect against serious health hazards’

The European Union’s Advocate General justified the ban because of the ‘urgency of the situation’ and because

‘Health is a priority objective which justifies restrictions on the free movement of goods’

Despite this the European Union affixed it’s flag to a Sainsbury’s British beef advert with the words ‘financed with the assistance of the European Community’.

The evidence we have assembled is:

• The well-documented European Union ban on British beef exports of 28th March 1996.
• An advert by Sainsbury’s in major British newspapers of 23rd February 1997
• A letter from Sainsbury’s Customer Services Director dated 30th December that confirms that 90% of Sainsbury’s beef is British.

‘The European Union is saying either British beef is perfectly safe in which case why the ban? Or they are saying British beef is the most dangerous in the world but the British people should eat it - subsidised by our own contributions to the European Union. In other words for our so-called ‘European Partners’ British consumers are expendable!’ said Rodney Atkinson.