- July 2010: click on No Country for Animals on Global TV (Canada).
The documentary focuses on the animal welfare problems in Canada and on the hard efforts several Canadians are making to change things there. Eyes on Animals and our international taskforce members are accompanied by Canadian television where we show them what improvements in animal welfare have taken place in Europe and Lesley (originally Canadian) questions why Canada is still dragging so far behind. We visit a Dutch pig farmer that has switched from sow stalls to group-housing and stopped performing castration. We then visit a Dutch "pig whisperer" who teaches farmers to better understand the needs of their animals and at night we inspect livestock trucks together with an Italian veterinarian and police at the Italian/French border. - September 2009: click on Gifkikkers on VARA (The Netherlands). Eyes on Animals inspectors are in the new Dutch television series "Gifkikkers". The first episode was about Dutch livestock transport and showed Lesley and Tatjana training the "gifkikkers" on the animal protection legislation and after Tatjana on the road inspecting pigs on board long-distance Dutch livestock trucks passing through Germany.
This program led to parliamentary questions being asked to the House of Representatives! Click here to read the questions (in Dutch). Click here to read the House of Representative's replies. - July 2009: Click on France 3 Sud news (France). Our inspections of livestock trucks in the summer heat on France 3 Sud (in French)- please be patient, it starts after about 15 seconds into the news....
- July 2009: Click on France 3 National News (France). The day after our inspections were broadcasted on the National French news!
- July 2009: EonA/PMAF and the gendarmes conduct an inspection of a Spanish truck with dehydrated Romanian calves on board. Click here to listen to the radio clip on France Bleue radio station.
- March 2010: Manitoba Co-operator (Canadian newspaper) article in reaction to our taskforce letter urging Canadian slaughterhouses and supermarket chains to stop pig castration and follow suit what is happening in The Netherlands where boars are now left intact.
- November 2009: Agrarische Dagblad article based on our letter to the Dutch authorities and the AGD concerning a Dutch livestock transport company that attempted to smuggle sheep out of the UK in a closed-truck and declaring only carcass meat on board (thank you to Kent Against Live Export for drawing our attention to this Dutch exporter and helping with this complaint).
Read the article about recent similar incidents in the British paper.
April 2010: Eyes on Animals received a reply from the Dutch authorities regarding our complaint, stating that they will send out two letters of warning to the transport company and if caught a third time, he will be fined €5000. Read an article that appeared in the British paper "The Protestor" about this. - November 2009: An interview with Eyes on Animals' inspector and coordinator Lesley in the fall issue of the Dutch WSPA magazine, page 1 and page 2.
- June 2009: Newspaper articles about our transport conference (financed by WSPA, Varkens in Nood and Stichting Hans van Eck) for official veterinarian transport inspectors from throughout Europe, held in Amsterdam June 23-24, 2009:
Agrarische Dagblad article part 1
Agrarische Dagblad article part 2
Agrarische Dagblad article part 3
Volkskrant article
