Shockingly, thousands of these animals die every year before they reach their destination. They may have travelled up to 50 hours by road to get to the sea port, followed by a journey of three to five weeks by sea and a further journey by road to the final destination. The Global Trade AustraliaĪustralia exports around two million live sheep every year, mostly to the Middle East, in vessels carrying as many as 85,000 animals. We believe this is a clear reason to stop the trade once and for all. The Commission has itself confirmed that it cannot safeguard the welfare of EU animals once they are exported outside EU borders. We make formal complaints to Member States regarding their failure to comply with Community legislation on the protection of animals during transport. In its last sitting, the European Parliament voted in favour of a limit to journey times, but the European Commission failed to support this change, resulting in no change in the law. Many MEPs are in favour of improving conditions for animals in transport and have voted to impose an overall limit on journey times. We’re working hard to lobby politicians to support a ban on the export of live animals from the EU for slaughter and fattening. When they were eventually cleared to enter Turkey, they still had another gruelling 2000km to go to Iraq. The truck had already travelled for 2600km over 5 days. In one incident, investigators witnessed a truck of bulls which set off from Latvia being delayed at the Turkish border for 6 days. The result can mean squalid housing, brutal handling, torturous restraint systems, and slow, painful slaughter. When European animals are exported outside of the EU, they leave behind the legal protection they received in the EU.
Hundreds of thousands are destined for Turkey, The Middle East, North Africa and even as far as Singapore. On top of this, every year, over three million cattle and sheep are exported from the European Union to non-EU countries.
In Europe alone, around six million farm animals are transported on long journeys across the continent with some journeys taking three days or more. If the UK does get challenged by the EU the Government should stand up for the animals facing export, and take the case to the European Courts if necessary. It’s time this law was updated so that ports can legally refuse consignments of live, sentient, animals without fear of legal repercussions.
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So, by law British public ports must allow lorries full of animals to pass through, even if the port authority doesn’t agree with the trade.
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The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act (1847) states that all ports must allow the free trade of ‘goods’, including farm animals. Many of these animals travel for days, only to be slaughtered or fattened for slaughter at journey’s end. In addition, there is a substantial export trade in young calves from Northern Ireland to the continent. However, thousands of calves and sheep are still exported by sea and road from the UK as far as Spain and Italy, despite the widespread opposition of the local community, the British public and a number of MPs. Thanks to the support of countless people like you, this number has dropped significantly. In the mid-1990s, over 2.5 million animals were transported live from the UK to be fattened and slaughtered in Europe.
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