Livestock carrier draws flak
Vocal activists proclaimed their abhorrence of live animal exports at the Abbotsford off-ramp to the N2 yesterday as thousands of cattle and goats were loaded onto livestock carrier the Holstein Express at the East London Port. The Page Farming Trust has been exporting live animals to Mauritius for about 17 years.Activists are opposed to animals being transported in livestock vessels, saying they suffer intense fear and discomfort during the sea journey."I think it is an atrocity that these animals are being subjected to live sea export, which is the cruellest form of transport," said Compassion in World Farming and Ban Animal Trading's Johannesburg representative Eileen Chapman, who flew down to join the protest yesterday morning."They become seasick, slip in their own excrement and sometimes can't get up. They arrive mentally and physically broken. It is blatant abuse and we should all aim to stop it."Page Farming Trust director Glen Page said the Holstein Express conformed to all international standards and to Australian live export protocol...
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