| In co-operation with Animal
Network the magazine "Wendy"
started a postcard action in September of last year against the
transportation of animals for slaughter all the way across Europe, the
response was magnificent; more than 28,000 signatures. Many of these
young animal lovers were not satisfied with merely signing their own
protest cards, instead they collected additional signatures in the
form of self-made lists. Not only compassion could be felt in this
response, one clearly recognises that, when confronted with a
complicated problem and asked to face up to facts, today's youth are
quite prepared to shoulder their share of the responsibilities
involved. Protest action cards reached the Animal
Network offices from Germany, Sweden, Austria,
Switzerland, France, Italy, Great Britain; Monaco, Cyprus, Belgium,
Liechtenstein, Greece, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain,
USA and even from far away Nicaragua.
An interim report published by Wendy
in its February 1999 edition reported the receipt of a further 8,000
signatures.
Animal Network will
hand these signatures over to the German Minister for Ernährung,
Landwirtschaft and Forsten (Food, Agriculture and Forests) Mr.
Karl-Heinz Funke in Bonn. The handover will be co-ordinated with a
resolution for effective animal protection during transportation of
horses for slaughter. The minister who, until 30 June of this year was
President of the EU Council of Ministers of Agriculture and, therefore,
politically responsible not only for national animal protection
legislation in Germany but for the whole of the EU. He will be obliged
to provide concrete information with regards to his intentions
in view of the, frequently indescribable horrors, of animal
transportation for slaughter.
We will continue to report under the heading "Help Suffering
Horses".
We thank the "Wendy"
readers most sincerely for their fantastic commitment and engagement.
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Some of the signed letters which
reached us: (Click to enlarge)
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