• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • EYES ON ANIMALS – Watching out for their Welfare
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • Deutsch

Eyes on Animals

Watching out for their Welfare

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
DONATE
  • About us
    • What we do
    • Our team
    • Key Figures
    • Contact
  • News
    • Latest news
    • Good news
    • Bad news
    • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Inspections
    • Farms
    • Markets
    • Transports
    • Slaughterhouses
    • Special projects
    • Other
  • Training
    • Police
    • Truck drivers
    • Poultry-catchers
    • Slaughter personnel
    • Training Material
    • Request a training
  • Industry Tips
    • Animal transport
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
    • Slaughterhouses
      • Cattle
      • Pigs
      • Poultry
      • Ritual slaughter
    • Educational videos
  • Publications
    • In the media
      • Print
      • Television
      • Radio
      • Videos
    • Newsletters
    • Special reports
    • Training Material
    • Annual reviews
  • Future Vision
  • Help us
Home » Our inspections » Meeting with Stena Ferries about the unweaned calves they accept on board from Rosslare (IRE) to the Cherbourg (FR)

Meeting with Stena Ferries about the unweaned calves they accept on board from Rosslare (IRE) to the Cherbourg (FR)

November 18, 2020

Today Eyes on Animals and the Swedish Association for the Protection of Animals met virtually with representatives from Stena Line in Sweden and the UK. At the meeting we handed over a petition with 22,882 signatures to Stena Line, that appeals to the ferry company to stop transporting livestock/young calves onboard their ferries from Ireland to France. 

Eyes on Animals and the Swedish Associaition for the Protection of Animals made it clear again to Stena that the EU law regarding feeding intervals for unweaned calves cannot be respected during these long ferry journeys from Ireland to continental Europe.  All of these animals, dependent solely on milk for their nutritional needs, go for well over the maximum 18 hours without any feed. At just a few weeks of age, they are loaded onto livestock trucks throughout Ireland, driven to Rosslare port, loaded on to a Stena ferry and then face a 17 -19 hours crossing of the sea to Cherbourg in France. 

In order to properly feed an unweaned calf, a person must manually feed each one to be sure s/he gets enough, and the milk must be heated first in order to avoid them developing diarrhea. With several hundred calves on board a truck, it is impossible to provide this individual feeding without unloading them. We would like to see the EU legal requirements enforced, with young calves remaining in Ireland until they are at least 2 months of ag which is when they can ruminate and eat forage during transport.

Stena Line representatives informed us that they will hand over the petition to the Irish Government, as well as discuss age requirements from which the animals can be transported with them.

  • share 
  • tweet 
  • share 
  • save 
  • email 

Primary Sidebar

Featured

Goat kids video screenshot

New investigation by Eyes on Animals into the fate of unwanted male goat-kids from the Dutch goat dairy industry.

Click here for the press-release >>
Click here for the film >>

Featured

The Forgotten Ones video play buttonNew film by Eyes on Animals, with the support of several international animal-welfare organizations, about the forgotten victims of virus outbreaks.

Search

Our most recent newsletter

Dear reader,

Most of you likely found out about Eyes on Animals via a newspaper article or a TV item. But did you know that Eyes on Animals is doing most of its high-impact work quietly in the background without any media attention?

Read more…

Subscribe to our newsletter

ANBI

Footer

Donate with Paypal

Paypal Eyes on Animals
One-time donation:
Monthly donation:

Reading Material

  • In the Media
  • Newsletters
  • Special EonA reports
  • Legislative texts
  • ANBI

Our Amsterdam Office

Amsterdam House Hotel
Eyes on Animals main office is in downtown Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam House Hotel. The generous and warm-hearted hotel owner donated to Eyes on Animals, free of charge, a beautiful room where our inspectors can work, hold meetings and store their material.

Copyright © 2021 · Eyes on Animals | Website by Webkompaan