Farmers take calves to Carla
13 August 1999
Farmers take calves to Carla
FOUR farmers took their protest about the state of the industry to the home of one of the countrys leading animal rights campaigners yesterday (Thursday).
The farmers unloaded 43 bull calves at the 19th-century manor house in West Sussex where Carla Lane, the television scriptwriter who has taken a high-profile role against cattle exports, lives.
The farmers, from Shepton Mallet, Somerset, said they were suffering because of high welfare costs and tough export legislation, combined with continued European resistance to British beef cattle after the BSE crisis.
One of them, Chris Barber, said that their aim was not to protest against Miss Lanes opposition to live animal exports, but to urge the government to promote British beef.
The bulls were aged between seven and 10 days. Under the legislation they cannot be exported until their mother has been alive for six months after their birth.
- Farmers dump dairy calves on Carla Lane, FWi, yesterday (12 August, 1999)
- Calf price slump reaches Scotland, FWi, today (12 August, 1999)
- CPAS end hits calf prices, FWi, 04 August, 1999
- On-farm calf slaughter fear as CPAS ends, Farmers Weekly, 16 July, 1999
- Desperate dairy producers to shoot calves as CPAS ends, FWi, 06 July, 1999
- The Times 13/08/99 page 20
- The Independent 13/08/99 page 8 (In Brief)
- The Guardian 13/08/99 page 7
- The Daily Telegraph 13/08/99 page 9
- The Herald 13/08/99 page 30