Animal Welfare Bill

: I do not want to rain on anyone’s parade. Broadly, clause 8 is a good clause and is improved by the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin). Subsection (2) highlights the fact that an animal’s needs include the need for a suitable environment and a suitable diet. Subsection (4) exempts the humane destruction of the animal, but makes no comment about the transport of animals for eventual destruction—for instance, the transport of farm animals abroad to be destroyed in very unsuitable and distressing conditions, where their environment is certainly not conducive to their welfare and their diet is nil.