“CALVE TRANSPORTATION! ⚠️ ATTENTION: Video shows violence against animals! For the first time, we have managed to trace the ordeal of three calves from birth in Austria (Voralberg, Tyrol, Upper Austria) through fattening in Spain to their slaughter in Lebanon!”

Animal transports to Lebanon: A status post that begins with the words above and the accompanying video are currently making waves, in which animal rights activists allegedly managed to trace the transport route of calves from Vorarlberg (Austria) to Lebanon for slaughter. After much research, this was finally reconstructed using the ear tags and transport documents.

The video by the animal rights activists “Association against Animal Factories” succeeded in showing the abuse and lack of control in animal transport by tracking animal transporters and simultaneously checking transport documents. The video begins with a short cut sequence in which cows are cruelly mistreated and then leads to the title “Up close: Animal transport from Austria to Lebanon”. The “protagonist” of the video is calf number 4887, which is picked up by a dealer three weeks after its birth.

A notice! This video contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some viewers.

Calves in fattening farms are usually separated 24 hours after birth. On the one hand, this ensures that the mother cow continues to produce milk and, on the other hand, that the newborn does not become infected with communicable diseases. Most organic farms have now deviated from this practice and let the calf grow up with its mother. A separation usually only takes place after 3 months.

After collection by the dealer, it goes to a collection point near Bergheim near Salzburg. There the animals are brought to Spain in an extremely long journey of 21 to 22 hours, not including loading and unloading. The video shows that some young animals do not survive this journey. According to the animal rights activists' research, the transport documents only showed a journey of 18.9 hours, a clear violation of the law.

By law, the transport of calves is permitted for a period of 19 hours. In order to test the claim, Rinderzucht Austria itself tested a transport to Spain, which also took 20 hours.

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The problems with such long journeys are, in addition to the great stress for the animals, the lack of food and water, lack of space and extreme heat in summer. Calf No. 4887 will undergo a massive fattening treatment in the next few months, during which the animal will be fed; this is much cheaper in Spain than in other countries. At just 9 months old, the calf is brought to a Spanish port and from there transported to the Middle East. When the ship leaves the ship, the traders are no longer bound by any European law, particularly regarding the keeping or feeding of the animals.

The transport of live calves from Europe to the Middle East, Turkey or North Africa has been banned by the highest courts for years. In practice, these judgments are often ignored due to a lack of controls. Statistics from Eurostat show: In 2018 alone, over 160,000 cattle were exported from Spain to third countries for slaughter, and a further 35,000 for further fattening. Import countries: including Türkiye, Maghreb states and Lebanon

The transport of the young cattle from Spain to Lebanon took over two weeks.

The handling of animals for slaughter in Lebanon and North Africa is hardly regulated by law. The animals are mutilated (including having their tendons cut to prevent the risk of escape) and slaughtered or slaughtered under cruel conditions. The animals' necks are cut open until they bleed to death after a few minutes.

Proof that the cattle are Austrian is provided by the ear tags, which show the country of origin, a number and a scan code, which enables precise tracing. This also applies to the calf with the number AT 4887, which is killed in the video with several brutal cuts to its neck.

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Summarized:

Yes, it is known that these animal transports are still taking place, despite clear legal and judicial regulations which are openly ignored. The video has already been reported on in all media in Austria, including the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).
It clearly shows that animal suffering is accepted for economic reasons and that the work in controlling animal transport in particular needs to be significantly sharpened, both through budgetary improvements and by raising consumer awareness. In this case, drastic penalties and confiscation of ships and transporters can very quickly make this practice uninteresting for the market and thus protect the cattle affected.

Sources:
Cows without childhood
Born in Tyrol, death in Lebanon
Revealed: Suffering of local calves traced to Lebanon
Route traced: Tyrolean milk calf also ended up at a slaughterhouse in Lebanon
Calf transports to Lebanon
Author: Alexander Herberstein


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