Member

I therefore feel very encouraged that the Government will set out legislation as well as ways to enforce it, because it is extremely difficult to enforce this. There are many companies that put proudly on their products that they contain “legal soy”. That was something, for instance, that Unilever always used to trumpet. I am not entirely sure how you do this, and I am very much in favour of what the Europeans are now looking at, which is to say that legal and illegal deforestation should count. We cannot afford to cut down any more forests. There are many things we cannot afford to keep doing, but this is one of them, and the El Niño that is brewing up in the Pacific will come bursting across the Amazon rainforest, producing heaven knows what in terms of damage to that incredibly precious environmental resource that affects the weather of the entire world. So this legislation cannot come too soon and I welcome the Government’s progress.