LETTER: Extend transition date to get right EU trade deal

THE Government is pursuing a US trade deal, risking our high farming and food standards by placing agriculture on the negotiating table. This is likely to lead to a reduction in our healthy farm to fork strategy in favour of a system that supports unacceptable standards of animal welfare, a system that is likely to throw our environmentally supportive farming methods and standards into the open arms of the powerful American agri-chemical companies.