- Worldwide tranport of live animals Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on January 20, 2020, 12:45 pm
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What we do to our fellow humans, in wars for instance, is bad enough but our treatment of live animals in transporting them globally for fattening or slaughter is even worse. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/20/live-export-animals-at-risk-as-giant-global-industry-goes-unchecked 'Nearly 2bn live pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep and goats were trucked and shipped around the world in 2017' 'Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser of campaign group Compassion in World Farming, said: “We’ve told the EU they should not be sending animals to places where this is happening. “There are international laws on animal welfare at slaughter set by the World Organisation for Animal Health, and we should not be sending animals to places where we know they are being broken,” he said. “Some of this is just habit. If the will was there for the EU to say – probably working with Australia – that there could be no more live exports, then it could be done.” He said that the slaughterhouses he had seen in the Middle East were the worst he had seen.' |
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