MEPS CALL FOR EU EIGHT HOUR MAXIMUM LIVESTOCK JOURNEY LIMIT
October 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FORMAL call for the European Commission to propose eight hour journey-time limits for livestock being carried across the European Union (EU) has been made at the European Parliament.
Its agriculture committee approved a report requesting Commission action on Friday. The EU currently has no such limits and the committee vice-chair, Polish MEP Janusz Wojciechowski, said later that animals suffer during 24 or even 30-hour-long journeys.
He added that "more and more" pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses were being driven long distances ...
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