If we know the provenance of bovine animals, then the lifting of the ban on British beef can be guaranteed and these animals can also be labelled. Yet, if we cannot label these animals because we do not know the origin of the meat, how can we then lift the ban? In other words, in the same week, France cannot be forced to lift its ban because the meat is traceable to a certain extent, while the request for labelling has been turned down on account of the technical impossibility of tracing the animals.
Autrement dit, dans cette même semaine, on ne peut à la fois forcer la France à lever l’embargo, au nom d’une traçabilité certaine de la viande, et refuser l’étiquetage au nom de l’impossibilité technique de suivre à la trace les bovins.