Livestock protest
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• Animal campaigners are to drive a truck from the Shetlands to Brussels to highlight what they say are the awful conditions livestock travel in over long distances. The vehicle will be empty, but Animal Concern (Scotland) says it will follow a typical route and schedule. The group says it hopes to convince the public that transporting live animals is unnecessary. "If people must eat animals then they should be humanely slaughtered as close as possible to where they were reared," says John Robins.
If meat has to be exported, it should be in refrigerated trucks in the form of carcasses, he adds, claiming that hauliers regularly flout regulations concerning watering and resting of animals, and that this could get worse after 1992 when international traffic increases.