Transporting Food Animals

EDM number 425 in 1992-93, proposed by Andrew Miller on 06/07/1992.

That this House congratulates Liverpool University Faculty of Veterinary Science and the British Veterinary Association for organising a petition within the veterinary profession on the transportation of food animals; further recognises the high degree of support for the petition within the profession; calls on the Government to resist any dilution of British standards for transportation and in particular to resist the current Council Directive which if implemented would unnecessarily cause suffering to animals; and believes that the ultimate aim should be to reduce the maximum transport time to eight hours.

This motion has been signed by a total of 118 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.