IS it not time to "stop the bull ship"?
I was shocked to discover that my hard-earned taxes are being used to subsidise the export each year of some 200,000 live cattle from the European Union to the Middle East. The animals suffer highly stressful journeys, lasting more than ten days only to be slaughtered in horrendous conditions with their throats cut while fully conscious.
On average around £120 is paid for each animal exported, not to the farmer who has reared them, but to the dealer who exports them.
The dealers profit from this trade, because the EU subsidises it to around £41 million from our taxes. It is a scandal British taxpayers are subsidising such an abhorrent trade.
Instead we should be supporting small farmers and promoting the welfare of animals and working towards a trade in meat, not live animals.
Sir John Ebbs,
Denison Road,
Pocklington.
Updated: 09:07 Tuesday, November 29, 2005
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