Even if you get food from an animal the animal isn't always food. "Thus horse meat is zero-rated even though a live horse is standard-rated."
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|Oklahoma District 1
Kevin Hern
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Yes76%
No21%
Present0%
Not Voting3%
Party align97%
Cross-party1%
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Kevin Hern
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oh my god I hadn't considered this quirk: what about food that is alive? Good news! Animals are food: "live animals of a kind generally used as, or yielding or producing, food for human consumption are zero-rated"
Not ALL animals though. Only those generally used for food. Like Ostriches.
Does food have to be eaten? No! "This particular phraseology (rather than the simpler food for human consumption) was chosen deliberately to eliminate end-use considerations" It's still food if you _could_ eat it even if you don't actually sell it to be eaten
Does food have to be palatable? Don't be silly: "there are many commodities used as food ingredients which would generally be regarded as food but are wholly unpalatable looked at alone: flour is an obvious example."
Does food have to be nutritious? Of course not! "There are a number of food flavourings which, while we allow them to be zero-rated as food, have no nutritional content at all."
"To most people, food is something eaten (or drunk) for nourishment or enjoyment" thanks
because it's friday i have been reading my new favourite government document, titled "What Is Food?"
examples include "have you noticed how expensive it is to commute to London from Manchester" and "I haven't seen a person face-to-face in 10 days, mad how unsocial we all are"
love the category of article which is "I made a series of decisions during the pandemic which are now coming back to bite me, this shows how broken Britain is"
Germany too
Feels good
Imagine if they’d brought out a really good errrrrrr Ruby Gem seven years ago and you’d been waiting for a 2.0
Maybe I should just steal the valour
Still haven’t really worked out how to share colleagues’ great pieces without accidentally stealing valour
Would be quite funny if after all this the UK just… got some economic growth and things got better
Abolish bedtime comrade
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582 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 4593 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2312 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2270 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2262 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 2262 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-13 | H. Res. 988 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H. Res. 988 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 6504 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-13 | H.R. 6500 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-12 | H.R. 2683 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-09 | H.R. 5184 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 1834 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H. Res. 780 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 131 (119th) | Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 504 (119th) | Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Divisions B and C | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-08 | H.R. 6938 (119th) | Retaining Division A | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 780 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-07 | H. Res. 977 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-01-06 | — | Call of the House | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 498 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 845 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 1366 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-18 | H.R. 4776 (119th) | Approve amendment | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3492 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 6703 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H.R. 3616 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 64 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Con. Res. 61 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-17 | H. Res. 953 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3632 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 4371 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H. Res. 951 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-16 | H.R. 3187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-15 | S. 284 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
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