Please add your voice to stop this animal suffering

If you want to stop animals suffering, please take a look at the campaign Compassion in World Farming has running to end the trade in live farm animals leaving the EU.

CIWF's Investigation Unit visited the Israeli‑controlled Kerem Shalom border, where the Gaza Strip, Israel and Egypt converge.  The evidence they brought back was horrific.  They found a trade in cattle from the EU being sent alive into war-torn Gaza for slaughter.  Animals had travelled thousands of miles by land and sea from Romania Hungary via Israel to the slaughterhouses in Gaza.   Conditions there are very basic indeed, and the pain and suffering the animals have to go through is just awful - you can read about the evidence (and there are a couple of videos) on CIWF's website.

CIWF says on their website (and I quote), that "recent correspondence with Compassion, the head of the European Commission said that although EU law states that ‘full regard should be paid to animal welfare’, that doesn’t apply to animals being traded."  Words fail me that the EU can think that's okay.  Animal lovers everywhere need to get behind the CIWF campaign and end the trade in live farm animals leaving the EU.  Please add your voice today.

This movement is growing globally.   The Palestinian Animal League Solidarity (PALS) is also calling for the suffering to stop.  CIWF say that Virginia McKenna, OBE, Founder Trustee of the Born Free Foundation, and author Jilly Cooper OBE, have sent messages of support.

An amazing 88,197 people have called on the European Commission to end the trade in live farm animals leaving the EU. 

If you haven't yet added your voice, please email the Commission here.  You can also make a donation, if you want.  And ARAN (Ireland's national animal protection group) and Compassion have a peaceful demonstration outside the Department of Agriculture in Dublin on 27th May.

Please spread the word;  join the campaign;  make a donation, if you wish;  but let's all work together to put a stop to the live trade in animals.  Every voice added will make a difference.  These animals need us to take action.