Lettre type pour les crocodiles !!

Lettre type pour les crocodiles !!
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A envoyer à :

david.miliband@defra.gsi.gov.uk

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merci beaucoup
Marie-Rose




Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

Dear Mr. D. Miliband,

I was shocked to hear that a farm in Cambridgeshire has been given the go-ahead to farm crocodiles for meat. These magnificent creatures are the latest addition to the seemingly never ending list of animals driven from the wild into factory farms – and I ask you, whilst this new cruelty is in its infancy – to nip it in the bud, and support a ban of the intensive farming of crocodile in the UK.

I am aware that, for a number of years now, crocodiles have been killed in the wild – or more increasingly taken for captive breeding in Australia and Asia. Studies of this barbaric trade overseas have shown that the shock and trauma of capture is substantial and that is before they are confined in an unnatural habitat for the rest of their lives. Killing can involve being clubbed to death or having a chisel hammered through the spine at the base of the skull. Until I hear differently, I presume similarly cruel methods will be used in the UK, as I am not aware of any welfare codes for crocodiles.

Most farmed animals are slaughtered after a matter of just weeks, but press reports state that the crocodiles being bred for meat in Cambridgeshire will be kept captive for 6 years before they are killed. Taken from their wild habitat, these animals will be unable to fulfil any of their natural behaviour in these concrete prisons.

The farmer in Cambridgeshire has reportedly boasted that he wants to breed as many as a thousand crocodiles. I am aware that he has obtained a wild animals licence, but I believe that public safety could be put at risk. It is outrageous that the local council have given their blessing to this foolhardy and cruel venture.

Please tell me what plans Defra has to regulate this trade – or, even better, please put matters in motion to end it.

Yours sincerely,