It is far better to achieve a ban by making it economically difficult because the standards are so high than to apply a legal ban, which people get around by sending their animals to Northern Ireland, southern Ireland and to Spain. Let us get what we really want, which is a reduction in cruelty, rather than an export ban.
Leaving the EU: Live Farm Animal Exports
Proceeding contribution from
Bill Wiggin
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2018.
It occurred during e-petition debate on Leaving the EU: Live Farm Animal Exports.
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