During one of our training courses of Belgian highway police, we stopped a truck transporting Dutch broilers to slaughter and witnessed a number that were injured. The head of one bird was crushed from the drawer being shut above, several wings were caught between the metal bars and the upper floor and the humidity inside the truck was high. More attention for these risks … [Read more...] about Improving design of poultry transport conatiners with Meyn, NL
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Inspection of EU cattle trucks heading into Turkey
Shocking news. Today our team that had been busy inspecting slaughterhouses in Turkey, drove quickly up to the Turkish/EU border for 1.5 days to get an impression of the latest situation at this border for live animals. The team was accompanied by French journalists. Now that the EU and its Member States have felt the pressure to finally enforce maximum live-animal … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU cattle trucks heading into Turkey
Meeting with Masterrind and ADR (German export-companies sending pregnant cattle to Turkey)
Today Eyes on Animals and AWF/TSB were in Bonn to meet with the German Cattle Breeders Federation and Masterrind about the situation for the thousands of pregnant heifers they exported to Turkey this past summer. We think we may have achieved a first small step : they will discuss internally our proposals that they stop exporting animals during hot weather, not use animal … [Read more...] about Meeting with Masterrind and ADR (German export-companies sending pregnant cattle to Turkey)
EU project on good and aspiring practices to reduce stress of poultry transport
What started off a bit tense became a positive and productive workshop today in Brussels between the stakeholders involved in drafting good and aspiring practices to reduce stress of poultry during transport. Eyes on Animals is a main stakeholder in this EU 3-year project to identify how to put the animal-transport law properly into practice and what steps industry players … [Read more...] about EU project on good and aspiring practices to reduce stress of poultry transport
Inspection of EU cattle trucks at Turkish border
One of our teams is on the Turkish side of the EU/TR border and inspected 15 livestock trucks today transporting live bovines from EU member states into Turkey. The majority of the animals appear to be in a suitable condition. However on one of the trucks we discover two new-born calves. They were born on the truck during the journey from German. This should never have … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU cattle trucks at Turkish border