Bid to label Scottish beef in restaurants.

The article reports that the proposal for compulsory country-of-origin identification of beef on restaurant menus was being pushed by Scotland's rural affairs minister Richard Lochhead. The Labour-Lib Dem administration originally drawn the proposal which have attracted a hostile reception from the British Hospitality Association. Quality Meat Scotland chairman Donald Biggar agreed to the minister's announcement and pointed to the importance of Scottish beef being identified as Scotch rather than British.