Last year (2010), Eyes on Animals inspectors visited the annual horse market in Hedel and found a series of totally unexceptable cases of animal stress and suffering. Through Eyes on Animals´ findings there has been considerable media attention. The organizers of this years´ horse market have, as a result of the findings and complaints made by Eyes on Animals, made a plan … [Read more...] about Planned animal welfare improvements for Hedel horse market (NL)
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Ongoing project:relieving suffering of chickens at market in Poland
Today, Anna, an Eyes on Animals volunteer based in Poland, returned to the livestock market in Bodzentyn to continue her efforts of making people switch to using cardboard boxes instead of net-bags to transport chickens. The chickens legs and beaks get all caught up in the netting, and they trample eachother when carried. Anna had quite some success during this second … [Read more...] about Ongoing project:relieving suffering of chickens at market in Poland
Inspection of cattle market in Leeuwarden
Today we visited the cattle market in Leeuwarden together with PMAF (French organization- Protection Mondiale des Animaux de Ferme). PMAF is hoping to make suggestions on good practices for market operators in France, and thus wanted to compare the situation with other countries and see what can be learned. EonA was relieved to see that conditions at Leeuwarden are still … [Read more...] about Inspection of cattle market in Leeuwarden
Meeting with Dutch officials (nVWA) to discuss Eyes on Animals’ observations at Hedel horse market
On November 9th, a team from Eyes on Animals inspected the yearly horse- market in Hedel (the Netherlands) where we observed and documented numerous important animal-welfare violations. As usual, we sent our report out to our regular recipients, which always include the nVWA (new combined AID and VWA inspectors). As a consequence, the nVWA invited us to their head office … [Read more...] about Meeting with Dutch officials (nVWA) to discuss Eyes on Animals’ observations at Hedel horse market
Inspection of horse market in Hedel (NL)
A team of inspectors from EonA visited the equine market in Hedel in the early hours of November 8th. This market is held on a yearly basis. Alongside the horse market in Drenthe it forms one of the 2 biggest horse markets in Europe. This year there were 2145 equine being offered for sale. During the course of the event some … [Read more...] about Inspection of horse market in Hedel (NL)
