Today we had an appointment at (truck) auto body specialist Van Ravenhorst with its director Dick van Ravenhorst and Rene van den Berg from Van den Berg Poultry. They explained how the automatic water system in poultry trucks works and we discussed animal welfare regarding poultry transportation. A month ago we followed a Van den Berg Poultry truck from a farm in the … [Read more...] about Visit van Ravenhorst autoshop and vdBerg poultry exporter
Our inspections
Meeting with the Turkish Political Party for Animals
Soon animal suffering taking place in Turkey will be brought up to the political level! Turkey now has a Political Party for Animals made up of competent professionals. Tonight the team from EonA/AWF met with the spokeswoman from the party to become acquainted and see how we could cooperate on certain projects. We discussed what we had seen inside the … [Read more...] about Meeting with the Turkish Political Party for Animals
Visit of another Turkish slaughterhouse
Today the EonA/AWF team met with the director of a Turkish slaughterhouse who was open enough to let us view the unloading and slaughter of cattle in his plant. He was curious of our opinion and open to cooperation. This plant received many cattle trucked in from the EU. He told us that some were arriving so dehydrated that their lungs were stuck to the chest … [Read more...] about Visit of another Turkish slaughterhouse
Unsuccessful attempt to visit Narmanlar slaughterhouse in Esenyurt. Turkey
The EonA/AWF team met with the government veterinarian and private slaughterhouse veterinarian from this plant earlier in the week. We introduced both organizations and explained our hope to visit their slaughterhouse and discuss any points we think they could improve on to increase animal-welfare. Today we were told via telephone that the boss refuses to show us inside … [Read more...] about Unsuccessful attempt to visit Narmanlar slaughterhouse in Esenyurt. Turkey
Observation of a “good” poultry truck in Turkey
A common problem with the crates and containers used in the transport of poultry throughout Europe and abroad, is that there is no access to the birds once loaded (despite being an EU requirement) meaning any bird that is sick or injured is left for hours to suffer an cannot be given first-aid or humanely killed. Ventilation is also seriously impeded as headspace is … [Read more...] about Observation of a “good” poultry truck in Turkey