Transport of horror
From Professor Arthur Finch Sir: 'Banned wagon' is usually a reliable source of wry amusement as well as a useful reminder of increasingly irritating govern- ment meddling. Unhappily, the column last week let us down. To say that there is `no logical reason at all' for banning cross- Channel live exports is plain silly; to describe the bill as 'really nothing more than mutton-chop xenophobia' is cheap journalism.
You do not need to be a vegetarian or animal-rights activist (I am neither) to know that live animals transported across the Channel face the possibility of immensely long and horribly managed jour- neys and dreadful destinations, not simply `some beastly Frenchman'. Live exports to mainland Europe result in widespread, wholly preventable suffering.
Arthur Finch
Egham, Surrey
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