Animal welfare during transportation

The European Parliament’s ANIT Committee (Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport) was established in 2020 to look into the issue of live animal transport. Many experts in the field called for a radical change of live animal transport rules based on scientific findings and investigations of transports, stressing that the EU cannot guarantee the welfare of animals transported to third countries, that transport of vulnerable animals such as unweaned calves or lambs and pregnant and spent animals leads to immense suffering and that long-haul transport of live animals should be gradually replaced by transport of carcasses and genetic material. Today, it seems that instead of improving the recommendations, there is pressure to decrease the ambitions even further… This is a call for action!