Europe closer to ending long-haul horse abuse
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The European Commission at nowadays agrees that European Union legislation on long-distance carry of animals to slaughter needs to hold upward reviewed.
Late concluding week, the European Union Commissioner for Health together with Consumer Policy, John Dalli, agreed with welfare groups that the acquaint Transport Regulation cannot adequately protect animals on long journeys together with must hold upward reviewed.
The charity World Horse Welfare said the disputation constituted an of import modify inwards the seat of the Commission, which until at nowadays had maintained that enforcement of the acquaint rules would address serious welfare problems notwithstanding experienced past times tens of millions of animals, including 65,000 horses, transported on European roads for slaughter or farther fattening every year.
Dalli made the disputation afterwards meetings with members of the European Parliament together with creature welfare groups inwards Brussels at the handover of a petition signed past times to a greater extent than than ane one G one thousand European Union citizens calling for a maximum journeying throttle of 8 hours for these animals.
He agreed with the participants that existing carry regulations were non sufficient to guarantee an acceptable marker of welfare for animals during transport, together with announced that the committee volition suggest a review of European Union legislation that volition include – alongside other things – a reduction of carry times.
World Horse Welfare principal executive Roly Owers said: “We welcome the commission’s recognition that enforcement lone is non enough, especially equally elements of the electrical flow Transport Regulation are largely unenforceable.
“This is a proficient footstep inwards the correct direction, simply equally ever the devil volition hold upward inwards the detail. We volition at nowadays operate with the commission, the European Union Parliament, Ministers together with other creature welfare groups to press for this review to commence equally shortly equally possible, together with for changes to hold upward made straightaway where the regulation is out of work with scientific knowledge.”
Such scientific knowledge exists for horses. The charity pointed to the recommendations of scientists at the European Food Safety Authority, who called inwards 2011 for a maximum journeying throttle of 12 hours for horses transported to slaughter.
World Horse Welfare is pressing for a short, maximum journeying throttle of no to a greater extent than than 9-12 hours inwards work with electrical flow scientific evidence.
The Council of European Ministers is currently debating whether they volition recommend a review of the Transport Regulation together with World Horse Welfare is urging all Equus caballus lovers inwards Europe to write to their agriculture ministers on this of import issue.
A quick together with slow means to accomplish your Agriculture Minister together with guidance on what to say tin hold upward flora hither http://bit.ly/JlQyNM together with on World Horse Welfare’s bring activeness pages.
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