ixport ban rejected
Page 5
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
IEMPTS to ban the export of livestock from Britain have been attacked by Road Haulage ociation national chairman John Silbermann.
peaking at the RHA's .istock conference at itwich at the weekend, he there was nothing more ly to provoke public symly than the neglect or illLtment of animals in tran We have nothing to fear or e when Government ■ ointed inspectors make t checks on livestock in asit. Livestock hauliers, nigh the RHA, have, over years, co-operated to the est extent in devising and ilementing new rules and ulations to avoid discomfor animals," he said.
Despite all this, there is v a renewed call from induals and animal welfare anisations for further rest:ions on livestock movent, aimed at imposing a d ban on livestock sent to European mainland."
le accused the animal protors of turning logic upside vn. "In all my dealings with id haulage I have never ne across an argument ich says, 'because you are a ,-abiding industry it is right t you be deprived of your ;mess because other couns are not able to impose the le standard of animal wel e as has been achieved in tain'."
le urged that cases of ged mistreatment abroad should be pursued in the countries in which they occur, rather than at the source of the mistreated animals' journey.
"To say that it is only British livestock exports which are subjected to abuse must be the ultimate example of chauvinism," said Mr Silbermann.