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'SAO PAULO, April 27 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has banned the export of
live cattle from all the country's ports, a ruling hailed as historic on
Thursday by an animal welfare group.
The verdict, which can be appealed, was handed down on Tuesday by federal judge
Djalma Gomes.
"Animals are not things. They are sentient living beings, that is, individuals
who feel hunger, thirst, pain, cold, anguish, fear," Gomes wrote in the ruling.
The National Forum for the Protection and Defense of Animals, a Brazilian NGO,
had filed a lawsuit in a Sao Paulo court in 2017 requesting all live cattle
exports be banned.
The animal rights group called Gomes's ruling "historic" for its recognition of
"the suffering caused to animals ... in an activity similar to human
trafficking at the time of slavery."'
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