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A pet cow has prompted questions to be raised in the House of Commons. Mark Harper, Tory MP for the Forest of Dean, pleaded with animal welfare minister Ben Bradshaw to spare Harriet, a nine-year old Jersey cow, from a BSE cull.

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The cow, which was raised as a pet by Gloucestershire farmer David Price, may have been fed the same feed as another cow that died of BSE.

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Although Mr Price insists that Harriet is a pet and there is no chance of her meat ever entering the food chain, DEFRA have confiscated her passport and locked her in a field. Although Mr Price argues that Harriet was kept in another part of the farm to the diseased cow, and fed on different feed, Defra insist that the cull must go ahead.

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Mr Bradshaw also raised the unlikely issue of ‘rustling’, saying that Mr Price could not guarantee that Harriet was safe from being stolen, butchered and sold as food. He continued that Mr Price was able to challenge any decision in the courts.

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