The same animals walking under the desert sun for months coated in wool without nothing green at sight, does not seem like a totally cruelty-free better alternative necessarily. There is not logical reason to see it as a morally superior alternative.
There is bad ways and good ways to transport animals by road.
Ok. Honest question. What do you suggest then? Teleportation?
The "but its cruelty against animals so lets kill them instead!" card is a random and really worn out argument nowadays. We have enough of real problems yet.
I swear the video on that site is edited to make things seem worse than they are. Literally the only thing we ever see is a close up of cow faces, sped up to make the movements seem more erratic.
All the language is also full of hyperbole ‘the terrible exhausting journey’, ‘their sad faces’, ‘the aggressive behavior of the truck driver’.
I just cannot watch this thing. These people instantly have an agenda to me.
They may be right, but there are enough terrible stories out there without any attempt to make it worse (as seen from some of the stories posted here).
> Unexpected issues – in addition to routine suffering, long distance live transport can also result in fires, delays or sinking of livestock ships causing the suffering and death of large numbers of animals.
Apparently sinking ships with live stock is not uncommon?