Palma.AnimaNaturalis coordinator on Majorca, Guillermo Amengual said that livestock breeding and abattoirs around the world make a living out of slaughtering 350 million animals a day.
It's important that we make sure that the conditions under which animals are bred and raised for the slaughterhouse are humane, Amengual said, adding that a greater public awareness is needed about excessive meat intake.
Volunteers from AnimaNaturalis were yesterday highlighting the allegedly cruel conditions suffered by young animals in intensive breeding programmes. People shouldn't turn a blind eye to how the animals they end up eating are reared, he claimed.
AnimaNaturalis said that 50'000 million land animals are slaughtered for human consumption every year in cruel conditions.
AnimaNaturalis and the Balearic Animal Defence league (Baldea) campaigned regularly last year against bullfighting. Outside Muro where there is a bullring and a solid following of bullfighting fans, scuffles broke out between demonstrators and supporters at the start of the bullfighting season.
Baldea expressed satisfaction last year that Spanish law is showing some shift towards animal protection. A landmark case in the Balearics has included a pet-owning ban on a man who was convicted of leaving dogs on a terrace with no shade or food whilst he went on holiday.
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