transport

Eyes on Animals gave a presentation today at a meeting for banks in The Hague, made possible by the Dierenbescherming (national Dutch animal protection organisation). In July of last year a report about Dutch bank groups and animals transport was published. The report shows that banks that invest in animal transport and meat companies pay little attention to animal … [Read more...] about Presentation to Dutch banks about animal-transport

Welfare improvements for “Dutch” chickens during transport are around the corner! After Eyes on Animals sent the EU and Dutch government many inspection reports showing injured birds due to poor loading conditions (see a video of some of our inspections HERE), the welfare of chickens during transport is definitely on the agenda of the Dutch government and industry itself! … [Read more...] about Brainstorming with SVO to start welfare-trainings for chicken catchers (NL)

  Today Eyes on Animals together with Herman Klompjan (livestock driver and from Consultancy Animal Welfare Transport) visited Cuppers, a Dutch company that builds and repairs livestock trucks. Our reason for today's visit was to encourage them to be sure that all the livestock trucks they build provide easy access to the animals during transport. Why? Because the EC … [Read more...] about Meeting with Cuppers, livestock-truck manufacturer, NL

A team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation was conducting random inspections of livestock trucks tonight and spotted 3 poultry trucks being loaded at a farm in Gelderland. The trucks were from a company that we know regularly transports spent poultry to slaughterhouses in Poland. Being “spent”, these birds are often already in a compromised condition, so … [Read more...] about Trailing Van Hunnik spent breeding poultry truck from NL to Polish slaughterhouse

Today Eyes on Animals met with Sleegers Transport, Jaap de Wit Sr and Jr from Westfoort slaughterhouse and Herman Klompjan from Consultancy Animal Welfare (and previously Klompjan Transport) to discuss a topic that has become hot in the Netherlands - the fact that many of the new livestock trucks being built here do not have side access doors. This makes access to the … [Read more...] about Meeting with transporters about access to animals

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

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

This afternoon the team from EonA/AWF spotted a sheep truck on the national roads east of Istanbul. The truck headed to a livestock market in Tuzla where we observed the unloading of the animals. The sheep were loaded on two levels. The bottom level had very little ventilation as the sides of the truck were almost completely closed. The transport journey must … [Read more...] about Inspection of unloading of sheep at a Turkish market

Today a team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation spotted a national cattle truck on the roads in Turkey. The cattle were all tied on, bulls and cows mixed. We noticed one cow fall down with her head still attached by the short rope. As the truck was very crowded, she now risked being trampled or strangled. We immediately signalled to the truck driver to … [Read more...] about Risk of serious injury for cow during transport, Turkey

Today Eyes on Animals, at our own request, met with two employees of Storteboom 2Sisters Food Group. The purpose was to find out whether Storteboom could be of help with contacting chicken catching teams. EonA would like to investigate how chickens are caught and loaded into transport crates and, if necessary, give welfare-workshops to these catching teams. During the … [Read more...] about Meeting with Storteboom poultry, NL