Our colleagues from Compassion in World Farming have recently published new footage from investigations on the export of live animals from the EU to Turkey. The photos prove that, despite all claims from Big Ag goups, these horrendous circumstances are no exception to the rule: animals are crammed into overcrowded trucks; they are not provided with (enough) food and water, they are injured, exhausted, and some dead.
Even weak EU legislation on the protection of animals during EU transport is routinely breached – and politicians are not acting fast enough. Thus, we launched a protest asking EU Commissioner John Dalli to suspend the export of animals to Turkey as a matter of urgency in order to prevent further suffering and to bring an end to long distance transport of live animals altogether. We are currently collecting signatures and have already gathered more than 18,000 – we will keep you posted on further developments.
via Protest to Ban Live Exports to Turkey.
