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bites there in southern germany. for years it's been a departure point for long distance animal transports today it's kept just separated from their mothers. very profitable here in germany young birds often go for export. are headed for northern spain and another collection point. this footage was filmed by. the animal welfare foundation she's followed the transports for more than 20 years the slide indicate about us all these are the noises the cats make when they're suffering and they increase as the journey goes on. more and more calf's join in this bellowing you see them licking everything

sucking at each other and are really in a kind of starvation stress the animals are under common and stress killers and then. after an almost 20 hour. journey the animals are on loaded spain many of the young cats are completely exhausted song having survived the ordeal. in this film we track animal transports not only despite. we also find out what happens to german livestock sent to other places such as north africa. and russia where we document the longest transport of german animals over thousands of kilometers to central asia.

yes. it's early december $21000.00 when we set out with us found out now for the 1st time. we want to find out what exactly is going on behind the trade in young cattle and what happens to the animals financially in a year from today yes we're driving to a collection point near to. a recent trip to come i was tipped off by an official who said young calves were being transported via various collection play offs to staying with her for she knows hamish de transport she had to be at. the collection point is located in a small village on the river most of us watch as what goes on from an opposite hill she's expecting a transport to arrive today from bavaria. suddenly and around 3 o'clock in the morning trucks begin arriving while others depart. we

follow 2 animal transporters. they take a strange route they should be heading straight across the border into france but instead they take a huge detour of yet to be. the german cabs are unloaded at the collection point in their maneuvers. according to animal transport regulators the cattle should be watered and fed and allowed to rest for 48 hours now. next morning meets a friend i didn't call or not works for the french animal welfare group well farming. what are they expecting. that hans part of the transport will probably go on to spain and that's what we assume there are german caps there too but we just don't know yet when they'll start to load the i reckon they'll do it when it gets light what to expect today or for that we're going to expect living in the

morning and go to the opinion and maybe we can but it's come to our union. writing letters and. it's the afternoon less than 24 hours after arriving the transport is on the move again. we're on the highway heading to the south of france. to. the cabs i've already been in transport for much longer than is legally permitted. at a service area in your name the drivers take a break it's a chance for the animal rights activists to get a closer look and maybe have a word with the drivers. of. the ear tags suggest there are german animals on board mostly from bavaria and badr yet. you ask the drivers where they've come from and where they're going you know. they say

they came from near me louis and are heading to spain and no mention of the fact that they started off in bavaria. back in the car i didn't call or not contact the french police she asked them to stop the trucks and check their. citizenship you name it on it which she said but before she was even finished her call the transport is off again. the animal welfare activists follow him and see him and sometimes if anything to do that i'll fetch and just tell me they don't have enough stuff for a check and i'm. fortunately they couldn't do anything tonight. the 2 women watches the trucks pass the border into spain without a hitch. we want to know how this transport was possible in the 1st place even though you laws prohibit such long journeys.

we head to the veterinary office and speak to the man in charge and you get all this is subtle it's a little political he's brought some colleagues for support. of course did not check these transports a further loading and unloading are monitored and the papers are checked to make sure they're ok and it doesn't that we know it's a check on paper no i mean there's a check on the ground to let us know what kind of check exactly. you know if you know there's your check to see whether the animals appear to be healthy or not as high and donations and. but the office also ought to check whether the transport is credible. this came from a very of your tree or to isaak's. and that's almost double the distance that needed. that alone arouse some suspicion. is that if i did no one ask why the animals were taken to ensure holden and then to

want to direct group would have been quicker. according to checks the transport times well by the book it's an economical decision whether to take the direct route of or take a diversion over why would a diversion be economical. because i can't be the judge of that each company must decide for itself which route makes most sense. no one here appears ready to go beyond the call of duty but we're not giving up quite yet. some of your tags when the trucks were parked in southern france. that's enough for us to trace which farm the cabs originally came from. the tags lead us to a small parish in the very region of all going. on the farmer to let him know we're coming. to you all

for your focus on your meats on the early evening. is this your farm. and you keep. how many cattle do you have. so it. 'd has its ups and so forth at least most of the bacillus can have calves to. their female both bred from high yielding cattle if all goes well he says they'll be producing 10000 liters of milk a year. because in this could be a few before i come to your because we film cattle on a transport to spain that was last december 5 like and what did you get for those animals who does it you couldn't because. the tone the. fear and the thought is in the book will do this if you feel that what this wonderful see oil with this is just a fuel. yes but i'm

i with the price coming off the fair to say that the ball cans as male or a waste product of this breed. took would do the most would be as the minister say chong fast as a fiver though because we don't all that sick missed it. from but he's here come a saga it's a soulful voice or commissar goes this so well it's a little bit so this is going to be at 5 o'clock the farmer shows us his cow shed he has a mixed herd but they're largely high yielding cattle. only keeps the dairy cattle so he has no use for male offspring. in addition there's little demand in germany for veal these days. the follows this get some almost. all done with this that most of the good is destructive wasn't enough. for them gave those tots elitist i don't think at this county.

this we expect of this. is a loss miles i'm never going to the animals we're going astray at least you must have time to get what did you think. that you'll hut who are you selling to the elf . after. all what it always does in the end. the farmer's bull calves ended up being taken to spain but what happened to them after that. we had to cut a loan yet to find out it's the center of spain's cattle fattening trade and here we discover one farm after another. in a spanish bet go with us to take a look. there are hundreds of calves here we can see they come from all over the european union. this is the spanish style of industrial cathy forming. on closer inspection of some of the farms we see

that some of the animals came from the u.k. . let me tell you. there are also calves from france and slovakia. we're not far from the seaport town or going up and find that's where most of the calves are exported from. on the way to the port we see animal transporters on the return journey. the transports unload on the pier. electric prods are used to drive a young bolt onto the ship. this load is mostly made up of animals from france for destined for lebanon. one man stands out among the workers at the port you want to start an animal exporter are our heroes from morocco. as we establish later he's bought the animals for an arab

company. but if he's prepared to talk to us so we arranged to meet with him a few days later. what's your job. most contiguous and explore i work as an export earnings of companies here in spain and organize transport to arab countries. or societies i drive around and pick out the animals i am i make a selection by them try to negotiate the best price to export them to arab countries they always end up at an average want. which countries do the transports go to. most. people you know i work a lot with lebanon but i also export to jordan. saudi saudi arabia

libya. morocco tunisia. almost all of the arab countries to be a computer design the more many animals how many cows and they're loaded up from germany. with. thousands of them. i don't keep a precise count. for the statistics live cattle from germany are shipped abroad for slaughter to many arab countries are insufficient cooling conditions for frozen meat. we meet. back at tara going to court where she wants to show us a ship that dock the previous day and tomorrow it's going to load up an animal transport. it's the crema law. before. she offered to seize. the car in marlow was built in 1965 originally as

a car ferry it's 55 years old at some point it was repurposed to carry livestock transports but unfortunately not very well. in 2016 we got onto the ship it shouldn't be allowed to carry animals so. it's full of things that animals can injure themselves on the ramps are still not for animals when they run out of the ship they have to make a 90 degree bend and go straight down steep wraps then they're hit with electric process and then the electrodes via. the ship's optic there's one deck on the ship that's only one meter 60 high not even a person can stand in it but can also regularly load it in there it's terrible the animals can't reach their food or water and if there is a problem.