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<p>We are aware that some restaurants in Japan offer live seafood dishes on their
menus. In the UK the practice of serving live food would be illegal under the Animal
Welfare Act as causing unnecessary suffering. We hope that public sentiment will move
those countries where such practices are currently legal, to change their policies.
However, in the absence of international laws or agreements governing this issue,
the UK has no legal grounds to intervene with Japan or other countries where the consumption
of live seafood is legal in domestic law.</p>
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