Outrage over live animal shipment for slaughter
ANIMAL activists are up in arms because nearly 3000 animals are about to be shipped live from East London to Mauritius to be slaughtered.
They say animals experience trauma while being transported and should rather be slaughtered here and their meat transported.
Last August, anti-animal cruelty demonstrators protested against the loading of livestock onto cattle ship the Barkly Pearl. Tensions boiled over when the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' attempt to get a court interdict preventing the exportation failed.
The Page Farming Trust, which has exported livestock to Mauritius for 16 years, said it would load 1700 cattle and 1000 goats and sheep on the Diamantina tomorrow. The load would fetch R13-million. - Barbara Hollands.
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