• Reading Level 5
Science | Citizenship | PSHE

Britain plans an animal welfare revolution

Is the world too geared to humans? We love animals – so why do we treat them so badly? Yesterday a fierce debate began over new UK laws to drive out cruel and inhumane practices. For the investigative journalist, working in an abattoir came as a shock. He found himself standing by a motorised track with dead sheep hanging from it; every metre or so, a worker removed a different part of them. “In a windowless space,” he writes, “the animals go from things you would see in a field to things you would see on a supermarket shelf.”

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