Our efforts from last October are paying off ! Last fall we trained over 150 Ghanaian slaughterhouse workers and agricultural students on what steps can be taken to reduce animal-suffering during slaughter. This training was done in the … [Read more...]
06.06.2018 Checking arrival of pigs at Vion Boxtel in summer heat, NL
Today was very hot outside and thus a team from Eyes on Animals made an unannounced visit to Vion slaughterhouse in Boxtel to check if the slaughterhouse was well prepared to protect pigs from heat stress. The outside temperature is 27 - 28 … [Read more...]
08.05.2018 Visit to livestock-export center Busser (NL)
Today we inspected the collecting center Busser in Bennekom. We were pleased that, despite us showing up unannounced, the manager still welcomed us and gave us a small tour. During our visit there was not a lot of activity. There were a few … [Read more...]
03.05.2018 Slaughterhouse Weidemark (Germany) makes changes to reduce heat stress
Eyes on Animals visited this pig slaughterhouse in the summer of 2016 (many Dutch pigs are slaughtered here) and noticed that many animals had to wait on board trucks, in the sun, for hours before being unloaded. We spoke with the director … [Read more...]
20.04.2018 Rondeel chickens first to be caught and loaded in a more friendly manner
Chickens will no longer be grabbed by their legs, hung upside down and stuffed into transport crates 4 to 5 at a time when they leave the farm to go to the slaughterhouse. Eyes on Animals has introduced the 'Swedish catching method' to the … [Read more...]
12.04.2018 Minks from Holland transported in horrible conditions
Recently we were in Poland conducting inspections of animal trucks. We stopped a horrible transport truck originating from a breeding farm in The Netherlands (owner: van Ansem) with hundreds of mink on board in tiny dirty wire cages. They … [Read more...]
12.04.2018 -13.04.2018 Practical training of Official Road Transport Inspectors (ITD), Poznan (PL)
TSB|AWF and EonA team was invited by Poznan Road Transport Inspection (ITD) to perform practical inspections on the road. We gave them our training course on Reg. 1/2005 (EU regulation on the protection of animals during transport) in … [Read more...]
30.03.2018 Visit to ESBRO poultry slaughterhouse in Wehl
Today, Eyes on Animals made an unannounced visit to slaughterhouse ESBRO in Wehl. At the slaughterhouse, 240,000 broiler chickens are slaughtered every day, including broiler chickens with a Better Life star label and Gildehoen broiler … [Read more...]
20.03.2018 Inspection collecting-center with hundreds of kids (young goats) for export
Today we inspected a collecting center in Brabant. There were hundreds of kids (baby goats) present, destined for France. The kids were brought in small trailers and some in a bigger truck from the company Busser. Unfortunately we were not … [Read more...]
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