The British govt has promised to stop live animal exports and have dropped the bill to do this. The following is an excerpt from an email I received today from Avaaz:
"Post-Brexit trade rule complications have led to a temporary halt to British live exports via Calais. But exporters could find a "solution" to this problem any day, and a ban will be much harder to get once vested interests are again making money from this cruel trade."
" The list of horrors animals exported from Britain and elsewhere endure is long: they face stress, exhaustion, hunger, dehydration, injury and death. They’re also often headed to conditions that would be illegal in the UK.
Live export disasters are frequent globally, too – like the thousands of sheep literally cooking alive in the blazing heat on a ship which moved nearly a million Avaazers to call for an end to this outrage, or a recent case of 15,000 sheep drowning when their ship sank en route to Saudi Arabia.
Repeated promises to ban live exports have been broken, despite broad cross-party support for this legislation. There was even a motion in Parliament that would have allowed the Bill to pass into law in a single day last month -- but the Government blocked this from happening. Avaaz is teaming up with Compassion in World Farming to say enough with the delay! Let's ask Rishi Sunak to be a real champion for animals, now: "
Avaaz have a petition to try to get a new bill into parliament. If you would like to sign please go to Avaaz.
Thank you
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