Post by lixxylu on Sept 2, 2005 10:24:30 GMT
Livestock markets in UK
For so long as animals are raised and slaughtered for meat and dairy products, we believe that they should be spared the wholly unnecessary additional hardship of a day at market.
Our Market Watchers see many animals suffering from injury and disease. They observe some with physical abscesses or swellings and others with bleeding wounds sustained while at the market itself. In all cases, market workers and users showed little or no concern for the animals' plight.
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One of our photographs used by The People, showed a market worker hurling a sheep over the top of her pen - the kind of abuse we have shown to be routine.
Animals sent to markets often spend hours standing on stone floors covered with excrement and urine; and they endure brutal slaps, kicks and violent stick-work from poorly trained and usually unsympathetic drovers. At the end of the traumatic ordeal, they are loaded onto lorries to be taken to farms or slaughterhouses.
Accompanying The People exposé was a coupon for readers to fill in and register their protest against market conditions. These were sent on to us. Two thousand have already been received and they continue to arrive at the office as we go to press, several weeks later. We sent further information to everybody who registered a protest and their forms have now been posted to Ben Bradshaw MP, the Minister for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with responsibility for livestock markets.
Although he has written to us welcoming A Dirty Business and stating that 'it will raise the profile and awareness of the issues', he seems reluctant to sanction the financial investment that might improve both biosecurity and welfare conditions. Issues we wish him to address include training of animal handlers, the provision of water, stocking densities, loading and unloading conditions and the handling of sick and injured animals
Please write to DEFRA Minister Ben Bradshaw MP at The House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA asking him to address the issue of physical violence and abuse of animals at markets.
Click here for the markets campaign index >>
www.animalaid.org.uk/markets/index.htm
FREE ACTION PACK (uk residents only)
www.animalaid.org.uk/markets/freepack.htm
Photos of the disgusting conditions at markets!
Bartered Lives video >
www.animailaid.org.uk/videos/bartered.ram
Our 2000 undercover video shows the kind of abuse that is routinely suffered by animals at livestock markets.
This video enraged me so much!!!
www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/marketspetition.pdf
Millions of farmed animals every year spend a punishing day at market before being sent to slaughter or on to another farm for further 'fattening'. It is an additional and totally unnecessary layer of suffering for these exploited and abused animals. For many, the hell of a day at market is merely the prelude to being sent on a punishing journey as 'live exports' - crammed into lorries and put to sea on a ferry bound for Europe.
The market is a place of confusion and physical violence. Animals may arrive at market sick or injured, or sustain injuries during the day. Frequently, no veterinary attention is received. Animals are beaten on and off of lorries, through the network of pens and metal 'races' into and out of the sales rings. The casual brutality of many market users and employees makes it more difficult for frightened animals to remain calm.
The market is a place of confusion and physical violence. Animals may arrive at market sick or injured, or sustain injuries during the day. Frequently, no veterinary attention is received. Animals are beaten on and off of lorries, through the network of pens and metal 'races' into and out of the sales rings. The casual brutality of many market users and employees makes it more difficult for frightened animals to remain calm.
It is rare for any of the roughly 14 million animals passing through English markets every year to have access to water, even on the hottest days. The same is true of those bartered through the Scottish and Welsh sales.
Further problems are caused by the fact that the physical fabric of most markets remains ramshackle and that there is still no accredited training requirement for those handling the animals. Even children are witnessed using sticks and electric goads on animals
In 1993, following the publication of our first undercover report on livestock markets, Animal Aid established a network of voluntary market monitors to help combat cruelty and suffering at such sales. The initiative became known as Markethingych. Since then, and with vital help from the monitors, we have produced three further major reports on markets - each of them supported by undercover footage. The impact these dossiers have had on the way bartered animals are treated has been positive and significant. However, despite the improvements of recent years, not least inspired by Animal Aid's own work, major problems remain. Animals continue to be subjected to aggressive and neglectful treatment that often constitutes a breach of the market welfare laws and/or Code of Practice. Enforcement of animal welfare legislation remains seriously deficient, with a lack of resources often blamed. The animals' main lines of defence - the market operators, vets, local authority trading standards officers and DEFRA itself - are simply not working as they should.
SO SAD!! 
There are about 30 major dealers involved in trading animals through markets and consigning them on live export journeys. They are part of, and not separate from, the rest of the farming industry. Many farm themselves. Sheep farmers know who they are dealing with when they put their animals in the hands of these men.
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It is estimated that each vegetarian saves around 20 pigs, 29 sheep, 5 cows, 780 chickens, 46 turkeys, 18 ducks, 7 rabbits, 1 goose and about 1,000 fish in their lifetime.
That is something to smile about... ;D
For so long as animals are raised and slaughtered for meat and dairy products, we believe that they should be spared the wholly unnecessary additional hardship of a day at market.
Our Market Watchers see many animals suffering from injury and disease. They observe some with physical abscesses or swellings and others with bleeding wounds sustained while at the market itself. In all cases, market workers and users showed little or no concern for the animals' plight.
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One of our photographs used by The People, showed a market worker hurling a sheep over the top of her pen - the kind of abuse we have shown to be routine.
Animals sent to markets often spend hours standing on stone floors covered with excrement and urine; and they endure brutal slaps, kicks and violent stick-work from poorly trained and usually unsympathetic drovers. At the end of the traumatic ordeal, they are loaded onto lorries to be taken to farms or slaughterhouses.
Accompanying The People exposé was a coupon for readers to fill in and register their protest against market conditions. These were sent on to us. Two thousand have already been received and they continue to arrive at the office as we go to press, several weeks later. We sent further information to everybody who registered a protest and their forms have now been posted to Ben Bradshaw MP, the Minister for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with responsibility for livestock markets.
Although he has written to us welcoming A Dirty Business and stating that 'it will raise the profile and awareness of the issues', he seems reluctant to sanction the financial investment that might improve both biosecurity and welfare conditions. Issues we wish him to address include training of animal handlers, the provision of water, stocking densities, loading and unloading conditions and the handling of sick and injured animals
Please write to DEFRA Minister Ben Bradshaw MP at The House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA asking him to address the issue of physical violence and abuse of animals at markets.
Click here for the markets campaign index >>
www.animalaid.org.uk/markets/index.htm
FREE ACTION PACK (uk residents only)
www.animalaid.org.uk/markets/freepack.htm
Photos of the disgusting conditions at markets!
Bartered Lives video >
www.animailaid.org.uk/videos/bartered.ram
Our 2000 undercover video shows the kind of abuse that is routinely suffered by animals at livestock markets.
This video enraged me so much!!!
www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/marketspetition.pdf
Millions of farmed animals every year spend a punishing day at market before being sent to slaughter or on to another farm for further 'fattening'. It is an additional and totally unnecessary layer of suffering for these exploited and abused animals. For many, the hell of a day at market is merely the prelude to being sent on a punishing journey as 'live exports' - crammed into lorries and put to sea on a ferry bound for Europe.
The market is a place of confusion and physical violence. Animals may arrive at market sick or injured, or sustain injuries during the day. Frequently, no veterinary attention is received. Animals are beaten on and off of lorries, through the network of pens and metal 'races' into and out of the sales rings. The casual brutality of many market users and employees makes it more difficult for frightened animals to remain calm.
The market is a place of confusion and physical violence. Animals may arrive at market sick or injured, or sustain injuries during the day. Frequently, no veterinary attention is received. Animals are beaten on and off of lorries, through the network of pens and metal 'races' into and out of the sales rings. The casual brutality of many market users and employees makes it more difficult for frightened animals to remain calm.
It is rare for any of the roughly 14 million animals passing through English markets every year to have access to water, even on the hottest days. The same is true of those bartered through the Scottish and Welsh sales.
Further problems are caused by the fact that the physical fabric of most markets remains ramshackle and that there is still no accredited training requirement for those handling the animals. Even children are witnessed using sticks and electric goads on animals
In 1993, following the publication of our first undercover report on livestock markets, Animal Aid established a network of voluntary market monitors to help combat cruelty and suffering at such sales. The initiative became known as Markethingych. Since then, and with vital help from the monitors, we have produced three further major reports on markets - each of them supported by undercover footage. The impact these dossiers have had on the way bartered animals are treated has been positive and significant. However, despite the improvements of recent years, not least inspired by Animal Aid's own work, major problems remain. Animals continue to be subjected to aggressive and neglectful treatment that often constitutes a breach of the market welfare laws and/or Code of Practice. Enforcement of animal welfare legislation remains seriously deficient, with a lack of resources often blamed. The animals' main lines of defence - the market operators, vets, local authority trading standards officers and DEFRA itself - are simply not working as they should.
SO SAD!!
There are about 30 major dealers involved in trading animals through markets and consigning them on live export journeys. They are part of, and not separate from, the rest of the farming industry. Many farm themselves. Sheep farmers know who they are dealing with when they put their animals in the hands of these men.
-------------------------------------------
It is estimated that each vegetarian saves around 20 pigs, 29 sheep, 5 cows, 780 chickens, 46 turkeys, 18 ducks, 7 rabbits, 1 goose and about 1,000 fish in their lifetime.
That is something to smile about... ;D