Are culled animals being fed properly while awaiting despatch?
That is perhaps the most worrying aspect. The farming press routinely has stories about the bottom falling out of one market or another (cull ewes, spent sows, baby calves) and there not being enough money around to feed them properly. Given that farmers get 100% compensation for the culled animals whether or not they are fed prior to slaughter, we worry about a great many animals going un-fed between the time of their destruction being confirmed and the actual killing, This could be seven or eight days.
