Letter: Animals in transit
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Sir David Naish ('Dear ferry companies', 16 September) assures the ferry companies that members of the Farmers' Union are concerned for the welfare of their animals in transit to overseas slaughterhouses. Their concern would ring truer if they had not waited until they were about to be hit in their pockets before voicing it.
If the high quality of British lamb makes it so desirable to the French and other Europeans, we could surely make it a condition of sale that it is in carcass form only. Butchering in the Continental style could be carried out in this country by specially trained operators.
Yours sincerely,
JOAN HAGGARD
Harpenden,
Hertfordshire
17 September
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