Promoting the transport of meat rather than live animals and the use of mobile and local slaughterhouses, increasing transparency and harmonising meat labelling, and developing a method of pricing animal suffering to be integrated into the cost of transport and the price of meat: these are the ways in which the EU legislation on the transport of farm animals could be improved, as suggested by the EU Court of Auditors in an analysis document published on Monday 17 April.
The aim of this...