AR-News: (UK) 'Bushmeat' seizures rise in Wales

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

BBC
Monday, 17 May, 2004,



 
There are warnings that the illegal meat trade could hit the meat industry
There has been a big increase in the seizures of illegal meat coming through 
Cardiff International Airport in the past six months. 
An annual conference of the Farmers' Union of Wales in Aberystwyth heard that 
bushmeat - including gorilla and monkey meat - had been found. 
It had come from South Korea, Nigeria and Botswana. 
The Public and Commercial Services Union told the conference that storage 
capacity at the airport is now being doubled in order to cope with what has 
become a growing problem. 
A coalition of animal welfare bodies, environmental health specialists and 
other groups recently called for a government inquiry into what it called a 
threat to public health from illegal imports. 

full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/3722273.stm 




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