Export Of Live Farm Animals

EDM number 309 in 1995-96, proposed by Elliot Morley on 18/01/1996.

That this House believes that the live export trade frequently imposes great suffering on the animals involved; is concerned that many animals are transported over extremely long distances in overcrowded trucks, often being deprived of food and water even during journeys of 30 hours or more; notes that University of Bristol scientists have concluded that transport is a stressful process for sheep and that transport distance and transport times should be kept to a minimum; believes that a trade which regularly imposes suffering on animals has no legitimate part to play in a civilised society and accordingly that the export of live animals for slaughter from the United Kingdom should be brought to an end and replaced by meat exports; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to urge the United Kingdom's EU partners to replace long distance live transport throughout the EU with a trade in meat.

This motion has been signed by a total of 123 MPs.