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Tonight, Eyes on Animals was a guest-speaker at a general meeting for the members of the Political Party for the Animals in Groningen. After the introduction, there were many questions from the attendees —sincere in their interest, but sometimes unpleasantly surprised by how many things still go wrong within the EU. For example, the transport of … [Read more...] about Presentation of our work to Political Party for Animals

Eyes on Animals together with Herman Klompjan from Animal Welfare Consultancy were invited to give a talk to a team of veterinarian inspectors from the NVWA in the south of Holland, during their team-building day. We talked about the work that Eyes on Animals does and how by working together with the industry we have achieved numerous significant improvements to the … [Read more...] about EonA gives a talk to the NVWA (Dutch government inspectors)

One of our volunteer inspectors is a member of the German initiative "Rettet das Huhn". They find homes for spent laying hens and when a farmer is preparing to rid his barn of his spent layers, this group offers to load them for free in exchange for the hens not having to go to slaughter. At 4:30am this morning we helped this fantastic German group load 850 spent hens and … [Read more...] about Help with rescue of 850 hens

Eyes on Animals was asked to speak at the NVWA congress, where over 200 Dutch government inspectors of livestock transport, slaughterhouses and farms attended. Margreet gave a talk on the legal issues concerning poultry transport, the need for a new design of transport containers and organized training for chicken catchers. Monique gave a talk about the alarming condition … [Read more...] about EonA speaks at congress for Dutch government inspectors

Today we held a meeting with a Demeter certifier at the Demeter office in Driebergen. Eyes on Animals is a big supporter of Demeter, as their farmers follow ethical rules such as keeping the calves longer with their mothers on dairy farms, using more robust breeds and not practicing certain painful procedures like de-horning. The purpose of … [Read more...] about Meeting with Demeter

Today, Eyes on Animals met with Stephanie Brown, a director and co-founder of one of the Canadian organizations (CCFA, Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals) in the Eyes on Animals International Taskforce. We updated each other on our work on the projects the taskforce members are working on together. Stephanie was pleased to report that, after providing a lot of Dutch … [Read more...] about Mini-taskforce meeting with our Canadian partner

Today Eyes on Animals met with an official veterinarian and authority on animal protection from the Belgian government. We discussed the Belgian sanction system for animal tansporters in violation and the urgent need for it to be strengthened. As well, that the Belgian police need to also be able to hand out administrative fines, not only p.v's which are often not … [Read more...] about meeting with the Belgian Ministry of Health

Having published several reports on the phasing out of pig castration here in The Netherlands, Eyes on Animals was invited to the EU workshop on pig castration and alternatives. Speakers from all over Europe, primarily from the pork industry but also from agricultural universities and meat research institutes, were present. During question and answer period, Eyes on … [Read more...] about EoA invited to EU conference on pig castration and its alternatives in Brussels