Lying helpless in the mud near some fetid green water, an emaciated calf struggles to breath. Aged just three or four months, the ear tag shows that the stricken creature came from the UK.
It has travelled a long way only to die on a farm in northern Spain. No wonder that animal welfare campaigners are demanding an end to the export of live calves and sheep to the Continent.
It is a gruelling journey by road and sea, particularly for animals transported from Northern Ireland or Scotland all the way to the cross-Channel ferry terminal at Ramsgate, Kent.
The group Compassion in World Farming is fighting to ban the journeys, claiming that the animals do not get the necessary food breaks to comply with the law.
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