High risk of injuries in Denmark`s live piglet export trade, audit warns
(The Guardian Denmark)

Cheaper labour and welfare costs have driven animal exports from Denmark to Poland, but critics fear corners are being cut`Something is wrong´: MEPs say EU is failing to regulate live animal exportsThe Danish government has been labelled `unsatisfactory` and `ineffective` in an audit of its ballooning piglet trade published today. In 2008 3.2 million live pigs were exported from Denmark; by 2018 that number had risen to 9.6 million. But the government continued to carry out just 100 checks a year up until 2018, according to the audit, with just 0.4% of transports being checked.This week the Guardian´s Animals Farmed series is focusing on the global live animal export trade, which, despite welfare and disease concerns, has quadrupled over the last fifty years. Related: `Sick cow´ meat scandal in Poland: fears raised over other slaughterhouses Continue reading...