Originally from: mona parr
                        
I put this forward for consideration as during FMD animals and their owners lost any 'rights' they thought they had.
I certainly thought at the start that my animals were safe as long as they stayed healthy--not so.
Some EU countries had access to vaccination--why not all.
If vaccination to live, was written in the Constitution would we not all sleep easier.

Why are we hauling live slaughter animals hundreds of miles (up to 1500 miles) to their deaths?
The plight of horses from Eastern Europe travelling to Italy without partitions still goes on despite the work of charities like ILPH and VIVA. Why is Halal slaughter allowed?
Why when cruelty cases are proven in the court do magistrates sometimes allow the animals to be returned to the owner?
Horses have been dying this spring of EHV 1 the paralytic form of equine herpes--not a notifiable disease so DEFRA has given no advice, no recommendations, no travel restrictions, no help in tracing how it has spread. A number of livery stables and horse owners have had weeks of worry--although perhaps relieved that DEFRA did not come in and recommend culling to prevent further spread.

The way a country treats its animals and children is a reflection on its people.
Many children saw the full horrors of FMD and lost their pets, I wonder at the effect on them in years to come.

We have seen what happens when one country allows a treatment/euthanasia and another doesnt--people of determination just move countries. Is it so wrong to have basic legislation Europe wide.
Mona