A Brazilian court judge has moved to ban the export of live cattle from all ports in the country, just as a long-flagged ban from New Zealand also takes effect.
The court decision in Brazil is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by The National Forum for the Protection and Defense of Animals in a Sao Paulo court in 2017 requesting all live cattle exports be banned.
Brazilian judge Djalma Gomes handed down a verdict in the case last week.
“Animals are not things. They are sentient living beings, that is, individuals who feel hunger, thirst, pain, cold, anguish, fear,” Gomes wrote…
