LIVESTOCK TRANSPORT
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for the development of mobile abattoirs as an answer to reduce the need for livestock to be transported long distances to be slaughtered. In a consultative report on European Commission plans to tighten livestock transport rules, it says mobile slaughterhouses would also boost employment in depressed rural areas.
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for the development of mobile abattoirs as an answer to reduce the need for livestock to be transported long distances to be slaughtered. In a consultative report on European Commission plans to tighten livestock transport rules, it says mobile slaughterhouses would also boost employment in depressed rural areas.
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