Transport of animal cruelties (From York Press)
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Transport of animal cruelties
12:02pm Monday 5th December 2011 in Letters By Reader's letter
ONE Brussels policy statement you’ll never see: “EU transport laws ensure that farm animals often have no leg room, fresh air or refreshments on long-distance journeys to slaughterhouses in places like Turkey.”
There is no doubt that some proper welfare protection is desperately needed for live sheep, pigs and cattle being exported from the EU to foreign meat farms.
How can we call ourselves a “race of animal lovers” if we, the Europeans, don’t even have a simple law to protect sentient farm creatures?
It’s ludicrous that cruel farming practices still exist in 21st-century society.
Anyone who would like any more alarming facts about factory farming and long-distance transport should visit ciwf.org/no holiday
Aled Jones, Mount Crescent, Bridlington.
alfie says...
1:55pm Tue 6 Dec 11
Also why are we still using "mans best friends" to test drugs and cosmetics on they are hardly the closest thing to a human. Dogs are a part of most peoples family's it breaks my heart seeing these poor beagles used in labs that have never seen grass or the sun. Or should we be lucky that we are not as bad as some foreign countrys were they are skinned alive etc.