Covid shipping chaos causes misery and death for thousands of livestock

‘We don’t look at animal welfare. It makes no difference if it’s 10,000 containers or 10,000 animals’: maritime official

08 July 2021 - 20:06 By K Oanh Ha and Kevin Varley

In late December, about 1,800 bulls left Spain for Turkey aboard a ship called the Elbeik. The trip was supposed to take about 11 days, then the cattle were to be sold, mostly to halaal slaughterhouses, where they’d be killed with minimal suffering, as required by religious law...

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