Eyes on Animals and The Marker’s investigative report about the cruelty behind Dutch white veal and it being sold in Austria as “wiener schnitzels” in were featured on the ORF, Austria’s main national TV channel (comparable to BBC in the UK). For a long time Austrian restaurants have been claiming to its consumers that wiener schnitzels came from well-raised Austrian … [Read more...] about The truth about Dutch white veal on Austrian national television!
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Referans, a Turkish-language Islamic magazine published an article written by our inspector
Referans, a Turkish-language Islamic magazine focused on religion, published an article written by our trainer/inspector Asalet Sancakdaroglu about the importance of slaughter being as humane as possible and the religious texts permitting, and even advocating, for rendering animals unconscious prior to the unavoidable and painful slaughter procedures such as restraint, … [Read more...] about Referans, a Turkish-language Islamic magazine published an article written by our inspector
Dead piglets on transport from Lunteren assembly centre
This summer, Eyes on Animals and colleagues from Animal Welfare Foundation observed an animal truck with Dutch piglets on board arriving at a slaughterhouse in Croatia. The animals had been loaded at an assembly centre in Lunteren (NL). During unloading, we saw that at least five piglets had not survived the journey. Their bodies were thrown from the ramp and dragged to a … [Read more...] about Dead piglets on transport from Lunteren assembly centre
Stunning Animals before slaughter is a religious duty
Asalet Sancakdaroglu, our inspector and trainer in Turkey, has published an educative report explaining why rendering animals unconscious—and therefore insensible to pain—before slaughter is a religious duty in Islam. Drawing on his extensive experience, Asalet trains professionals in the use of both captive-bolt and electrical stunning methods and has inspected hundreds … [Read more...] about Stunning Animals before slaughter is a religious duty
UK Calls for CO₂ Stunning Ban – A Breakthrough for Pig Welfare
We are proud to share some incredible news: the UK Animal Welfare Committee has officially called for a full ban on CO₂ gas stunning of pigs, recognizing the serious and prolonged suffering it causes. In their final report, published October 16th, the Committee recommends that the method be phased out at the latest within five years—a major victory for animal welfare … [Read more...] about UK Calls for CO₂ Stunning Ban – A Breakthrough for Pig Welfare
New stunning method reduces pig suffering
Vlees, the Dutch magazine for professionals working in the food and restaurant industry, published an article about how Eyes on Animals' redesigned a large pig slaughterhouse to make high throughput automatic electric-stunning much more humane, and to provide a realistic alternative to the painful CO2 gas stunning option so that the use of CO2 gas can be phased out. … [Read more...] about New stunning method reduces pig suffering
EonA/WACPAW Ghana-team participates at Vegan and Animal Advocacy Summit in Kenya
Sorf and Lukman from the Wacpaw /Eyes on Animals Ghana-team attended the Vegan and Animal Advocacy Summit in Kenya last week, joining around 240 animal welfare and vegan advocates from across the globe. They shared their efforts to prevent factory farming from taking permanent root in Ghana, emphasizing the importance of learning from the mistakes of wealthier Western … [Read more...] about EonA/WACPAW Ghana-team participates at Vegan and Animal Advocacy Summit in Kenya
Eyes on Animals and Dr. Temple Grandin publish an article together on CABI
Today CABI published a Case Study article that we wrote together with Dr. Temple Grandin. The article is about the changes we made to the design and pig handling methods at a high throughput pig slaughterhouse using automatic electric stunning. The changes drastically decreased suffering and fear. This brand new design of automatic electric stunning is now a … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals and Dr. Temple Grandin publish an article together on CABI
Welfare concerns during loading of piglets destined for Spain
Today, we saw a Spanish livestock truck at a pig farm in North Brabant, where young piglets were being loaded. We decided to take a look and introduced ourselves to one of the employees. He said we could observe on the condition that we did not film, which we naturally respected. However, just a few minutes later, the farm owner arrived and immediately ordered us to leave … [Read more...] about Welfare concerns during loading of piglets destined for Spain
NVWA to start enforcing rules on poultry trapped on their backs
Following enforcement requests by Animal Rights, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) will finally take stronger action against a long-standing animal welfare issue: birds ending up on their backs in transport crates or containers. This often occurs when poultry is handled roughly during loading and tossed into crates or containers at high speed and … [Read more...] about NVWA to start enforcing rules on poultry trapped on their backs
