FRENCH farmers are importing calves into Britain for slaughter to exploit a loophole in EU subsidies to British farmers.

British abattoirs are paying £5 a head to the importers and £80 to French farmers and receive for themselves £103.47 for each calf killed and incinerated.

For this blood money these wretched animals are dragged through two countries and across the English Channel in what is known as the European Calf Processing Scheme. A Radio Four presenter failed to hide his disgust when asking a British calf importer whether he thought this was a moral trade and was told "morality doesn't come into it."

Have the British public need of further evidence of the unmitigated evil of this disgusting regime and the cruelty of the livestock industry?

SYLVIA NOBLE (Mrs), Albert Road, Colne.

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