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Nothing would give me greater pleasure than saying that, but the root difficulty is that when people buy beef from the shops, the source of origin cannot be guaranteed, although we are getting into a stronger position as far as that is concerned.
That could, perhaps, be done in due course, but more rapidly there could be a notice of one or two lines on the forthcoming meetings of the SCPA and a link to its website so that people could find the agenda there.
We have other age-related laws—someone has to be 14 to go into certain licensed premises, 16 to buy cigarettes and 18 to buy alcohol—so there are precedents.
If I were a mother with a four-week-old child in a wee carrier and I wanted to have a half pint in the afternoon and not to buy any food, the existing legislation would not allow me into licensed premises with the baby.