In January Eyes on Animals rang the doorbell at the van Rooi slaughterhouse in Helmond, called the main office and wrote emails to get permission to visit their slaughterhouse but to no avail. No one called us back or responded to our emails. Our director knew Martin van Rooi quite well from previous years, so we found this strange. For this reason, today we dropped by … [Read more...] about 11.02.2014 Discussion with van Rooi (owner of pig collecting station and slaughterhouse) (NL)
Our inspections
Inspection Toennies pig slaughterhouse, Germany
Eyes on Animals together with Groothedde Vaassen (Dutch company that imports and distributes pig and cattle meat to Jumbo) and a student from Wageningen were invited to Toennies to check on their slaughterhouse. Reason for the visit was a film that Eyes on Animals made comparing electric and CO2 stunning of pigs (to watch the film click HERE). We were curious if there are … [Read more...] about Inspection Toennies pig slaughterhouse, Germany
Diepeveen Slaughterhouse, NL
Today Eyes on Animals paid a visit to slaughterhouse Diepeveen in Herveld to ask permission to view the slaughtering of young pigs. The slaughtering process had just finished but we were still allowed to enter. They informed us that they also do Halal slaughter. Inside we saw the installations and a restraint box they made to perform Halal slaughter for cattle. We … [Read more...] about Diepeveen Slaughterhouse, NL
Inspecting chicken crates of GPS transport company, NL
The team from EonA noticed from the highway that chickens were being loaded at a chicken-farm in the surroundings of St. Oedenrode. Usually this happens at night. We took a small detour to pay this this farm a visit. We weren’t allowed to look inside the farm to watch how the chicken-catchers caught and loaded the birds but we were granted permission to inspect the … [Read more...] about Inspecting chicken crates of GPS transport company, NL
Inspection of Heeswijk-Dinther pig collection centre, NL
Eyes on Animals visited the Heeswijck-Dinther pig collection centre in Brabant for the second time, again unannounced. Here pigs and sows are brought together from various regions, and a few hours later are reloaded and brought to slaughter - primarily to Vion slaughterhouse in Groenlo. During the previous visit in November 2013, there were two sows that arrived in such … [Read more...] about Inspection of Heeswijk-Dinther pig collection centre, NL