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Enhanced Animal Welfare Provision

1. Should there be compulsory CCTV recording in all areas of approved slaughterhouses in Scotland where live animals are present?

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Yes
No
Don't know
Please give reasons for your response.
As long as they are monitored at all times by respnsible and honest humans, who don't turn a blind eye.

2. Have we identified the main potential animal welfare gains from CCTV in slaughterhouses?

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Yes
No
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Please give any other potential animal welfare gains.
Though I repeat from above - "As long as the CCTV are monitored at all times by respnsible and honest humans, who don't turn a blind eye.

Enhanced Animal Welfare Enforcement

3. Is it reasonable to require Food Business Operators to retain CCTV footage for 90 days?

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Yes
No
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Please give reasons for your response.
The footage should be permanent

4. Should there be unrestricted access to CCTV footage, both real time and stored, for reasons of ensuring animal welfare by officers authorised by the Scottish Ministers?

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Yes
No
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Please give reasons for your response.
To ensure that no cruelty takes place and, if it does, that pepetrators should be sacked and prosecuted

Cost of Compulsory CCTV to Businesses

5. What do you think the cost of introducing compulsory CCTV in slaughterhouses in Scotland would be to (a) individual slaughterhouses and (b) to the Scottish slaughter industry as a whole?

Please provide evidence to support your response.
I have no idea. Thoughp erhaps the Scottish government should fund or part-fund CCTV so that animal welfare is raised to the highest standard, with immediate prosecutions for and lapse and/or harm to any animal

6. Do you consider that the costs of introducing compulsory CCTV in Scottish slaughterhouses are reasonable and proportionate for individual businesses irrespective of size?

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No
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Though maybe there could be an annual review and those claughterhouses who maintain high animal care and welfare at all times could be rewarded with a discount the following year.

7. Are there any other economic benefits or costs not mentioned in the consultation document?

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Don't know

8. Should CCTV be installed in all approved slaughterhouses, regardless of size?

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Yes
No
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Please provide justification for your response.
Many humans see animals as lesser beings than themselves, yet all animals are sentient beings, no different from humans. The government, I believe, is bringing this into law.

Therefore, cruelty to any animal is not acceptable. Perpetrators must be prosecuted.

9. Should the Scottish Government help smaller businesses to comply with a requirement for compulsory CCTV?

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Yes
No
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Please provide justification for your response.
Possibly.

10. Are you content for the Scottish Government to contact you for further clarification of the financial effects that you have estimated?

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No

About the consultation

11. Do you consider that that consultation explained the key issues sufficiently to properly consider your responses?

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No

12. Do you consider that you had sufficient time to respond to the consultation?

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No

13. Do you have any other comments on the way this consultation has been conducted?

No. As long as animal welfare is the top priority

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