Juxtaposing this EU communication on animal welfare with the video below illustrates clearly how, so often, poetry trumps policy.
Utopian perhaps, but the video nonetheless conveys simply the awakening realisation that I myself have been through about how we should treat non-human animals, and captures perfectly why I protested against animal exports many years ago and eventually stopped eating meat entirely.
In contrast, the dull but worthy EU prose (perhaps it contains good news for animals, perhaps it doesn't, but who's going to wade through it to find out?) appears orthogonal to this simple act of visual emotion. All this in the one continent which - above all others - should remember and recoil from shipping sentient beings in trucks.
