On the advice of Eyes on Animals, misting systems have been installed on one side of the canopy covered waiting area for the waiting pig trucks at VION in Boxtel. Large fans now blow mist over and through the trucks. The misting system, in combination with large fans to prevent excessive humidity, makes it much more comfortable for the pigs under the canopy. It is … [Read more...] about Misting under the canopy at VION in Boxtel
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Berkshire Butcher pork company helps reduce pig castration in organic sector
In the Netherlands most organic pig farmers are forced to castrate their boars, if not they cannot easily find a Dutch pork company willing to buy their pigs. This is very sad, as male piglets in the organic sector thus continue to be castrated, which causes long-term pain and trauma. In the Netherlands organic male piglets are often even rendered unconscious before being … [Read more...] about Berkshire Butcher pork company helps reduce pig castration in organic sector
Thumbs up to Van Loon’s decision last year
Thumbs up to Van Loon’s decision last year to offer a market to a Dutch organic pig farm (father and son) that wanted to stop castrating their organic piglets. Van Loon purchases, for a fair price, their intact boars and processes them through their Best Star Meat selection (the better-welfare label from Van Loon). We greatly applaud Best Star Meats from Van Loon for … [Read more...] about Thumbs up to Van Loon’s decision last year
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)
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