People’s advocate of herbal checks questionable practice, in animal transport

The Ministry of health should be sorry for information about controls and measures against animal

Vienna (OTS) – on the Occasion of the currently known defects in the transport of Animals from Bavaria to Styria people’s lawyer Günther Kräuter initiates a amtswegiges test procedure: „the pigs have to endure hours and hours cooped up in the truck, because the animal transports, in the middle of the night, long before the Opening of the slaughterhouse, arrive. This is unacceptable!“

According to the EU regulation on animal transport must be kept as short as possible and without delays, in order to increase animal suffering unnecessarily. Before the transport, all necessary precautions must be taken to meet the needs of the animals during the journey. From the transport documents, the day and time of the commencement of such transports, as well as the expected transport duration.

Animal rights activists have shown that, in the event almost every night of the pigs from Germany in the South of Styria carted for hours at the rest area would be switched off.

Herb calls from the competent Ministry of health education: „How often the transport of Animals and transport are controlled papers? How many criminal complaints have there been in the last 5 years for similar violations of the relevant EU-regulation?“ Furthermore, it will examine the AOB, which official actions are taken against the systematic rights violations, and whether with the German authorities in this specific case, a common strategy is followed.

Herbs also refers to a further investigation of the people’s advocacy in the calves of transport in Vorarlberg, worthy to be investigated. „From a purely economic approaches may not lead to improper practices, and thus to animal cruelty,“ herb concluded.

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Mag. Agnieszka core, MA
Department of public Relations and communication
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