A prize has been handed out to the company that implemented a better practice and on which the audience voted as being the most impactful initiative to reduce suffering and stress during transport or slaughter. The company that won the ‘better practice prize for transport’, is van Ravenhorst. They invented a poultry truck with an air cooling system, which reduces heat stress for poultry.
The company that won the ‘better practice prize for slaughter’, is the Willems abattoir. They invented a raceway and restraint box for pigs, in order to guide them calmly before being rendered unconscious. It is designed in a way that the pigs feel little anxiety, and stunning and slaughtering can be done quickly, correctly and in a calm way. Foodlog published an article about Willems and this prize that they won.
