Eyes on Animals conducted an inspection of chicken-catching at a breeding-hen farm in The Netherlands. Tonight two poultry-transport trucks and a catching team showed up to load all the birds and send them to slaughter in Poland. The handling was rough. The birds weighed 4.2 kg each. The catchers grabbed them by their legs and hung them inverted, two birds per hand and … [Read more...] about Inspection of chicken-catching in Woudenberg, the Netherlands
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Day 7: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border
We are joined today by Karen Soeters, director of PiepVandaag and photographer Thomas Schlijper from The Netherlands. They want to make a reportage about the conditions on the ground here that we have been seeing year after year. We are very pleased they want to further expose the problems in the hope that competent authorities and industry will finally take action to … [Read more...] about Day 7: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border
Presentation to European Members of Parliament on animal-transport
This afternoon an Eyes on Animals team in the Netherlands gave a talk to the European Members of Parliament about the horrible animal-suffering we continue to see on the live-animal transport route from Europe to Turkey. We showed the most recent photos taken by the Eyes on Animals and TSB|AWF team that is currently at the EU-Turkey border documenting the dozens of … [Read more...] about Presentation to European Members of Parliament on animal-transport
Day 6: Inspection live-stock trucks at the Turkeys border
All day livestock trucks from Europe are entering into Turkey . We observe animals coming from Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. We were able to inspect 24 trucks but many more passed by. One truck we first saw already on the 26.06 is still there. He finally leaves in the evening (after the animals wait two days straight … [Read more...] about Day 6: Inspection live-stock trucks at the Turkeys border
Day 5: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border
It is not raining anymore and it is getting really hot. A serious problem at Petline is that, like inside the border, there is only one water hose. Because the empty trucks on their way back to Europe are using water to clean their trucks the water pressure for filling up the water tanks on the trucks loaded with live animals is very low which makes the process of giving … [Read more...] about Day 5: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border