Gummer on animal exports
- Title
- Gummer on animal exports
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 14 Sep 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:45
- Description
- Interview with Agriculture Minister John Gummer. Follows the death by suffocation of 79 beagle pups on a ferry from Britain to Sweden. Gummer says he wants an urgent inquiry into what happened and if necessary the Government will prosecute. But he’s refusing to bow to RSPCA demands to outlaw the export of animals for research. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Peter Deeley).
- Contributors
- John Gummer; Peter Deeley?
- Keywords
- Government; Imports; Exports; UK; Great Britain; Animal welfare; Sweden; Animal welfare legislation; Animal experimentation
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