slaughterhouses

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)

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

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

Today the EonA/AWF team gave a Power-Point and film presentation to a team of 5 officials from the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture responsible for drafting the upcoming national legislation on the welfare of animals at the time of slaughter. This legislation will be based on the EU legislation. The team and others have received training from the OIE to prepare them for … [Read more...] about EonA/AWF meeting with Turkish Ministry of Agriculture officials

This afternoon we met with the Managers of Cemsan, a company in Turkey that makes slaughter equipment. They are now making a “kill-box” that does not require cattle to be hoisted alive by one leg during slaughter without stunning. It is a type of squeeze chute that can either rotate 90 degrees or 180 degrees. They are advising to their slaughterhouse customers to invest … [Read more...] about Meeting with Cemsan Slaughterhouse and Machine Equipment, Ankara (Turkey)

Today the EonA/AWF team dropped by Aygüler Dericilik slaughterhouse in Kazan near Ankara in Turkey. This slaughterhouse is large and sells its meat to various companies, including Namet to all parts of Turkey east of Ankara. The plant is run by two brothers of which we met with one of them today. We explained to him our work and reason for being there. We showed him … [Read more...] about Inspection of Aygüler Dericilik slaughterhouse in Kazan (Turkey)

On the 14th of December the EonA/AWF held a meeting with the boss of this slaughterhouse that we had never been to before. He admitted to us then that his current slaughterhouse was very old and the installations needed to be modernized. They hoist animals alive, do not have any restraint box even for bulls etc..   We looked through the Temple Grandin book about … [Read more...] about Observation of cattle slaughter at Cemit slaughterhouse in Bursa-Cali (Turkey)

Today was a disappointing day. We returned to the slaughterhouse in Gönen that we visited in June to find out that nothing at all had been improved on. The Manager that we had spoken to back in June no longer worked there. The new manager agreed to meet with us and admitted he did not know about our report or letters of recommendations. Nevertheless, he seemed really … [Read more...] about Follow-up inspection of Mutlular Entegre et Tesisleri slaughterhouse, Gönen (Turkey)

Today the EonA/AWF team met with the Plant manager, Quality Assurance Superviser and Veterinarian from Kayarlar slaughterhouse in Bursa-Gürsu. We had seen footage of how they slaughter cattle inside their plant and, like most other plants in turkey, here too bovines were being made to fall in trip-floor slaughter boxes and then hoisted alive by one leg. The plant manager … [Read more...] about Meeting with Manager, QA and Vet from Kayarlar slaughterhouse in Bursa-Gürsu (Turkey)

When the EonA/AWF team visited this slaughterhouse for the first time in June 2013, we were shocked by the conditions inside. Not only because the cattle were slipping and being hoisted alive by one leg (which is typical in Turkish slaughterhouses) but because there was so much extra stress and suffering here - the bulls were covered in the blood of previously slaughtered … [Read more...] about Follow-up inspection of Yilkay slaughterhouse in Bursa (Turkey)