FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BACKS SLAUGHTERHOUSE VIDEO CAMERA LAW
January 1st, 2017
PUTTING video cameras in France’s 960 slaughterhouses will not stop malpractice, industry groups have argued, following last week’s adoption in the French National Assembly (lower house of parliament) of a proposed law mandating video surveillance in slaughterhouses from January 1 2018.
“Protecting animals in slaughterhouses cannot be reduced to a question of cameras,” said France’s meat industry organisation Culture Viande. It said in a statement that videos would only allow malpractice to be shown after the act, “as videos shown by ...
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