Eyes on Animals is given permission by the transport company VAEX to observe the loading of piglets onto one of their livestock trucks today. The piglets will be transported to fattening farms in Germany. Today the piglets will be loaded from two different Dutch farms. Eyes on Animals has already watched the loading of "slaughter" pigs, and acknowledges that loading … [Read more...] about Inspection of loading of piglets onto a livestock truck from company VAEX
Our inspections
Eyes on Animals participate in pig welfare workshop at the European Commission in Brussels
Eyes on Animals was invited to participate in the first Pig Welfare Workshop at the European Commission in Brussels. Topics such as group housing of sows, measures to prevent tail biting, environmental enrichment requirements and problems regarding the different interpretations of the law were discussed. Participants came from all over Europe and included pig farmers, … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals participate in pig welfare workshop at the European Commission in Brussels
Meeting with Dutch transport company with bad reputation about improving its act
Today Eyes on Animals met with a Dutch animal transport company that has a bad reputation. Many complaints have come in from official veterinarian inspectors in Poland, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands, as well as from Eyes on Animals, concerning his livestock transports. In the past the water system has been broken, the 24 resting intervals were not respected, dead … [Read more...] about Meeting with Dutch transport company with bad reputation about improving its act
Inspection of livestock trucks together with Canadian TV in Italy
The Canadian TV team that documented our TASKFORCE meeting and tours also wanted to show the difference between livestock transport legislation in Europe from the much outdated rules in Canada. Eyes on Animals saw this as a great opportunity to put more pressure on the Canadian government that still accepts, for example, that cattle be transported 52 hours without water, … [Read more...] about Inspection of livestock trucks together with Canadian TV in Italy
Day 3 of the Eyes on Animals International TASKFORCE meeting
On this last day of our TASKFORCE meeting, we headed out into the field. We visited two pig farms where the farmer had stopped with pig castration. Both farmers were very happy and satisfied with having stopped. They never want to go back to performing castration. Both also did not use gestation stalls for their breeding sows, but rather group housing on straw. We also … [Read more...] about Day 3 of the Eyes on Animals International TASKFORCE meeting
