CCTV to be made compulsory in UK slaughterhouses.
Following Animal Aid's detailed investigation into UK slaughterhouses, the campaigning group is calling for mandatory CCTV to be installed in all abattoirs. This must be made law ahead of January 2013 when new Regulations - which will not allow the UK to improve upon existing measures - come into force. Already, the supermarkets are on board. Now we just need to persuade the government!
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Christina Bagan-Jones
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It seems every undercover investigation of slaughterhouses finds the most awful abuse of animals. It's high time the meat-eating public are made aware of how their food is produced. "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the world would be vegetarian".
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Barbara Gruner
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This is a must-do in all countries to prevent inhumane practices regarding the animals!
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Anonymous
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Archie Lochus commented · December 06, 2011 · Flagged
Can we exclude halal slaughterhouses from this please?
Why would you want to exclude these people from their sick and depraved practises? I believe as you only want to monitor non Halal slaughterhouses that your suggestion is rascist and I have flagged it as inappropriate because of that.
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Anonymous
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No votes left but I would vote for this. There is a huge amount of animal cruelty out there, both illegal and in places such as slaughterhouses. we live in a very cruel world to animals of all kinds.
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Anonymous
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CCTV will soon be everywhere so why not slaughter houses. The companies that provide this equipment at great unnecessary expense need to maintain their profit growth. Also this will provide more material for cheap reality TV programmes. Let's just hope they include the Halal slaughter houses too.
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Nina Eckhoff
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The USA needs to follow this example. We seem to be going in the opposite direction... where undercover videos (which are made to expose animal cruelty) may become a crime. How sad is is that?!? Seems designed to protect those who do harm. As usual in my beloved USA, follow the $$$ to learn how this perversion of justice came into being.
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Barbara Gruner
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This is a must do! It should be in all slaughterhouses for the animals' sake!
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Anonymous
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TRANSPARENCY!!!!!!
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Aaron
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Must act now. Need more signatures.
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Carl Holmes
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that should be banned all together
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Carl Holmes
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are you taking the piss
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Archie Lochus
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Can we exclude halal slaughterhouses from this please?
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Nick Taylor
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I have seen Animal Aid's video evidence, it made me sick to my stomach. The truth is, having CCTV is the only way to ensure this never happens again. Come on you Politicians, give us something to make us happy.
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Anna Burman
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These cruel men that work in slaughter houses should be ashamed of themselves....I hope they never get employed ever again anywhere near animals....they are inhuman. I think they must have no brains not to realise that animals feel pain too, like all living creatures they deserve respect, bad enough we eat them but let their final hours not be abusive one's. These men I hope will get their just reward some day for their dreadful acts.
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Jean NEWLAND
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Cruel people work in these places. They need to be filmed and stopped
and then sacked.
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Carl Holmes
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please watch this video revealing how much we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and please feel free to sign the stop fossil fuel subsidies campain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49q6uPcwY8&feature=player_detailpage
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susan whittle
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The horrific abuse of animals in slaughterhouses must not be allowed to go on and I implore the authorities to ensure that CCTV is made compulsary in Abbatoirs immediatley.
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sarah langhorne
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why should there be any problem for this cctv to be installed I can only think that those wishing to oppose it must have something to hide.
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DM TASKER
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cctv surveillance is broadly accepted across public areas to both deter crime and to assist with catching and bringing to justice those who cross over the accepted line. So what is the problem with having it in slaughterhouses? Only those with something to hide will wish to block it !!! Bring it on I say!
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Irene Barker
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Animal welfare is of the utmost importance and ranks alongside human rights and welfare. The two are inextricably linked. We ignore that at our peril.
