AGU tries to overturn the TRF-3 injunction that prohibits th

This Sunday (4/2) the Federal Attorney General's Office filed an appeal with the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region to try to suspend the decision that prevented the export of live animals throughout the national territory.





The injunction , signed on Friday (2/2), is based on the situation of 27 thousand cattle that were waiting to go to Turkey, from the Port of Santos. According B2B Lead to the National Forum for the Protection and Defense of Animals, author of the action, during the wait they did not even have drinking water.



For judge Djalma Moreira Gomes, from the 25th Federal Court of São Paulo, animals are subjects of law and must have their basic rights protected.



The AGU says that compliance with the order will cause economic impacts on international trade and the Brazilian trade balance. Brazil exports an average of 600,000 animals per year.



“Numerous commitments made with international commercial partners will be broken, resulting in enormous damage to our country's commercial credibility, precisely because it generates unpredictability in the economic and commercial relations established in the country”, says the appeal addressed to the president of the TRF-3, judge Cecília Marcondes.







According to the AGU, preventing the vessel from leaving proves to be much more “painful and exhausting” for the animals than the journey itself, since the ship cannot be cleaned on the Brazilian coast, for environmental reasons.



“Therefore, it can only be cleaned, with animal feces removed from the ship on the high seas, with the use of specific equipment that uses seawater itself to clean the ship”, states the petition.