The queues of livestock awaiting slaughter grow longer and longer.

Are these animals being fed and watered in the days between confirmation of their being destroyed and their actual deaths?

Reports are already coming in of starving animals. I fear because there is no financial return on feeding them the animals' suffering will go unheeded.

This, along with many of the animals being stunned with a captive bolt device, rather than shot cleanly with a bullet from a regular gun, means many animals will be mortally injured and die a slow and horrific death.

We should remember the animals are the real victims of our human desire for meat at any price.

-Sara Starkey, Tonbridge, Kent