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
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Eyes on Animals inspectors graduate from Pig Signals course
Inspectors of Eyes on Animals participated in a 4-day training course on Pig Signals, run by FarmulaOne (http://www.farmulaone.nl). Participants of this intensive course, which had both theoretical and practical components, came from as far away as Korea and Finland and were all involved in someway with the pig industry (feed company staff, pig nutrionist, farmer and us- … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals inspectors graduate from Pig Signals course
Mini-taskforce meeting with our Canadian partner
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
Advice to Dutch authorities NVWA at its 25th anniversary
The Dutch authority NVWA is celebrating 25 years of official veterinarian supervision in the field. Eyes on Animals was asked to meet with the organizers of the 25-year symposium to share our experiences, opinions and suggestions regarding their official inspections and animal welfare developments in the Netherlands. We looked back on the improvements that were made, … [Read more...] about Advice to Dutch authorities NVWA at its 25th anniversary
meeting with the Belgian Ministry of Health
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
