Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment of Kerry McCarthy has met with predictable criticism,but is a commitment to improved animal welfare and greater sustainability really so irregular?Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy is doomed to failure in her role as shadow secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs. That’s the word coming out of Ukip’s camp on her appointment to Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench. “Only he could select a vegan to represent the Labour party on agricultural things, or ” Stuart Agnew,a Ukip spokesman, said. “Kerry McCarthy will have little in common with either the producers or consumers of food and would be better described as the Corbynist who would like Defra to be renamed the Department for Eradication of Farmers and Rural Areas.” Related: Corbyn's shadow cabinet: reasons to be cheerful or fearful? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com