Europe closer to ending long-haul horse abuse

Excerpted from an article on Horsetalk.co.nz.

The European Commission now agrees that EU legislation on long-distance transport of animals to slaughter needs to be reviewed.

Late last week, the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli, agreed with welfare groups that the present Transport Regulation cannot adequately protect animals on long journeys and must be reviewed.

The charity World Horse Welfare said the statement constituted an important change in the position of the Commission, which until now had maintained that enforcement of the present rules would address serious welfare problems still experienced by tens of millions of animals, including 65,000 horses, transported on European roads for slaughter or further fattening every year.

Read more on this development here.