Today we spent another day visiting numerous Turkish cattle abattoirs to introduce the captive bolt stunner and educate on how animal suffering can at least be reduced when they are rendered first unconscious. More and more Halal consumers in Turkey are de-bunking the myth that Halal means slaughter with just a knife, and realizing Halal means "food safe to eat" and … [Read more...] about Explaining how stunners work to more cattle slaughterhouses in Turkey
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Teaching stunning at cattle abattoir near Bursa, Turkey
Yesterday Eyes on Animals worked at a slaughterhouse near Bursa (Turkey) to show the difference between traditional slaughter (without pre-stunning) and more humane slaughter (with a stunner). They were slaughtering cattle from the Czech Republic. We showed them how the use of a stunner renders the cattle at least unconscious before they are hoisted by a chain around … [Read more...] about Teaching stunning at cattle abattoir near Bursa, Turkey
Spreading awareness in slaughterhouses in Bursa, Turkey
The Eyes on Animals team in Turkey spent the whole day today visiting slaughterhouses in Bursa. We explained to the managers what a captive bolt stunner is and how it works to render animals unconscious (and thus insensitive) before slaughter. They are in favour of stunning, but none dare to be the first to start stunning the animals as stunning is still, wrongly, seen as … [Read more...] about Spreading awareness in slaughterhouses in Bursa, Turkey
Follow-up visit to Emir Adak abattoir, Istanbul
Today Eyes on Animals returned to Emir Adak abattoir, a small abattoir outside of Istanbul that primarily slaughters sheep, and occasionally a bovine. The sheep are housed in a stable inside the slaughterhouse and customers can come, select a sheep and have him or her slaughtered, to take home the meat cuts home later. The manager, and one of his main customers … [Read more...] about Follow-up visit to Emir Adak abattoir, Istanbul
EonA invited to talk at NVWA Animal Conference (NL)
The NVWA (Dutch government body in charge of enforcing animal-welfare law) invited Eyes on Animals to their Animal Conference today. 160 official animal-welfare inspectors were present. We gave 3 workshop sessions and then participated in a panel discussion. We brought up topics that we think need to be given more attention by the nvwa, gave illustrations of positive … [Read more...] about EonA invited to talk at NVWA Animal Conference (NL)
Third meeting with calf-welfare group that advises Flemish Minister of Animal Welfare (BE)
Cattle behaviour expert and veterinarian Ronald Rongen, on behalf of Eyes on Animals, participated in the third meeting of the Calf Welfare Group in Brussels. Together with a team of specialists on calf farming and animal welfare, the current and future possibilities in calf farming were further analysed and discussed. In an open dialogue, all options available regarding … [Read more...] about Third meeting with calf-welfare group that advises Flemish Minister of Animal Welfare (BE)
Spreading better practices to French pig abattoirs
Today we were visited by 4 French managers of a large pork company which has 3 slaughterhouses in France, one of which uses electric stunning. They visited us in order to see the improvements we made at a large Dutch pig abattoir and see if they could put some of the better practices in place in their own abattoirs. We started with a short introduction, presented a film … [Read more...] about Spreading better practices to French pig abattoirs
EonA director interviewed on Studio Plantaardig Podcast
Lesley Moffat from Eyes on Animals was guest on Studio Plantaardig today. Listen to the interview with her about Eyes on Animals’ work, successes, reasons for working in the field, efforts to totally transform the manner chickens are being caught, improving slaughterhouses in Ghana and Turkey so the animals are at least stunned first, re-designing slaughterhouses in … [Read more...] about EonA director interviewed on Studio Plantaardig Podcast
Another step forward at Tamale abattoir, Ghana
WACPAW and EonA have been busy trying to reduce some of the horrific suffering at the slaughterhouse in Tamale, Ghana. Here cattle too weak or injured to walk are dragged into the slaughterhouse by a rope tied around their neck. Broken pelvis, broken leg... it does not matter. We have built trolleys and the board of the abattoir is willing to use them - soon downer animals … [Read more...] about Another step forward at Tamale abattoir, Ghana
Unannounced inspection of Leeuwarden cow market
An EonA team conducted an unannounced visit to Leeuwarden cull-cow market this late afternoon. We have been regularly visiting and trying to work with this market since 2004. Back then we regularly saw tethered cows tangled up in their ropes, downer cows being dragged by chains into small trucks, lactating cows dripping milk and not being milked, injured animals being … [Read more...] about Unannounced inspection of Leeuwarden cow market
