Eyes on Animals has sent a letter to Dutch organizations Vee&Logistiek (representing animal traders and transporters), COV (representing the meat-industry) and individual slaughterhouses to take effective measures when animals are transported during cold weather. For example: Closing the side-shutters of the truck and adding a thick layer of bedding. The current … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals asks industry to take measures against cold stress
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Positive Development in Better Monitoring Animal Handling in Slaughterhouses – AI Camera Surveillance
Deloitte, together with Eyes on Animals, the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals (de Dierenbescherming) and Vion Foods have created an Artifical Intelligence Camera Surveillance Tool to effectively detect and correct animal-welfare problems. Although current camera systems can help identify animal handling issues, there are significant limitations. Only a random … [Read more...] about Positive Development in Better Monitoring Animal Handling in Slaughterhouses – AI Camera Surveillance
New film: From Holland to Hell: Dutch cattle slaughtered in Lebanon and Libya
Eyes on Animals is publishing today a new film they made, in cooperation with Animals International , Animal Welfare Foundation/Tierschutzbund Zuerich and Welfarm, about the fate of Dutch cattle exported out of the Netherlands. Teams documented this past summer how Dutch cattle (males born on dairy farms in Dwingeloo and Friesland) were tied up, forced to fall down and … [Read more...] about New film: From Holland to Hell: Dutch cattle slaughtered in Lebanon and Libya
Another Imam confirms that stunning animals prior to cutting their throats is allowed in Islam and the meat is Halal
Inspector Asalet from Eyes on Animals interviewed Imam Yalçın İçyer about the question of stunning animals and the definition of Halal. This Imam explains that rendering animals unconscious (insenstivie to pain) prior to cutting their throats and de-bleeding them is the correct thing to do. Imam Yalçın İçyer studied at the Ankara Faculty of Religion in Turkey. He then was … [Read more...] about Another Imam confirms that stunning animals prior to cutting their throats is allowed in Islam and the meat is Halal
Concerns about forced-ventilated closed livestock trucks
Eyes on Animals has written to several major truck-design companies regarding concerns we have with forced-ventilated closed livestock trucks. These trucks are completely closed and automatically ventilated. During our summer inspections, however, we witnessed this ventilation is not always sufficient, making these trucks very hot and humid - resulting in heat … [Read more...] about Concerns about forced-ventilated closed livestock trucks
