Cattle stranded on ship in Spain must be destroyed, say vets

Spanish officials recommend 864 cows that have been at sea for two months are no longer fit for transport More than 850 cows that have spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are no longer fit for transport anymore and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians. The cows have been kept in what an animal rights activist called "hellish" conditions on the Karim Allah, which docked in the south-eastern Spanish port of Cartagena on ...