Almost 900 thousand European citizens call on MEPs to ban cruel live exports
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Under current rules, pigs can be transported for 24 hours non-stop and sheep and cattle for 29 hours with just a one-hour break.
Key Points:
- Under current rules, pigs can be transported for 24 hours non-stop and sheep and cattle for 29 hours with just a one-hour break.
- This would still allow the cruel and unnecessary long-distance transportation of live animals to countries in which the EU has no means to ensure that animal welfare standards are respected.
- Longer transports, exports of live animals and transports by sea need to be banned altogether, says Pierre Sultana, Director of the European Policy Office at FOUR PAWS.
- There was much talking about live export while I was in third countries seeing no change at all in how European animals are being treated.