Shocking footage of pollution on the island of Skye

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A beach covered with trash where animals are risking their lives. That's what this veterinarian saw on the island of Skye in Scotland.  Footage: Paddle Against Plastic UK

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00:00This is breaking my heart. This cow is basically chewing on this piece of fishing net.

00:26I think she's swallowed part of it and she doesn't know what to do and she's just been

00:29stood here for about 20 minutes now just chewing and if that piece of fishing net goes down into

00:36a rumour then she's dead. It's horrible. I feel so helpless. I'm a vet. So I think what I'm going

00:43to do is pack up quickly and get out onto the water where hopefully there's some signals

00:47and phone the non-urgent police number and get them to contact the farm.

01:00Got a little update on our cow. You can see her behind me. She's decided that fishing nets don't

01:05taste so good after all. She's managed to erectate so belch the fishing net up. She's tried to pick

01:13it up a couple more times and after about attempt six and me flapping around and running at her like

01:21a mad thing to try and stop her from doing it she's finally stopped attempting to eat the bloody

01:27fishing net. But it's only a matter of time until she finds another tasty bit of fishing net or

01:33until one of her mates does or until a sheep does. It's not just the animals out in the

01:38ocean here that's affected by this stuff. It's everything.

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