Our AWF/ EonA team stays at the Bulgarian side of the border between Kapitan Andreevo/ Bulgaria and Kapikule/ Turkey and observes the arrival times of animals at the border. A French journalist from ARTE is accompanying us. The trade is comparably slow, with approximately 10 animal trucks per day. We inspect a certain number of trucks, who are loaded with heifers from … [Read more...] about Inspections of transports to Turkey, Bulgaria
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Inspection at Vion to evaluate the new Dutch protocol to protect animals from extreme heat during transport
On the 24th and 25th of August, during a heatwave, Eyes on Animals arrived unannounced at the entrance of VION, a large slaughterhouse in Boxtel, The Netherlands, in order to inspect the truckloads of pigs arriving. The aim of the inspections was to check whether the new Heat Plan Protocol, written by Vee & Logistiek, was having an effect in practice. The Heat Plan is … [Read more...] about Inspection at Vion to evaluate the new Dutch protocol to protect animals from extreme heat during transport
Meeting with Pimk transport company about suffering they cause to animals en route to Turkey
There is one company in particular, Pimk, that has been causing horrible suffering to cattle en route from France, Hungary and other EU countries to Turkey. Their drivers are not rude or mean, but most do not have any experience working with farm animals nor do they understand how the equipment on a livestock lorry works. As a result the animals on board most Pimk trucks … [Read more...] about Meeting with Pimk transport company about suffering they cause to animals en route to Turkey
Inspection of chicken-catching in Woudenberg, the Netherlands
Eyes on Animals conducted an inspection of chicken-catching at a breeding-hen farm in The Netherlands. Tonight two poultry-transport trucks and a catching team showed up to load all the birds and send them to slaughter in Poland. The handling was rough. The birds weighed 4.2 kg each. The catchers grabbed them by their legs and hung them inverted, two birds per hand and … [Read more...] about Inspection of chicken-catching in Woudenberg, the Netherlands
Day 7: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border
We are joined today by Karen Soeters, director of PiepVandaag and photographer Thomas Schlijper from The Netherlands. They want to make a reportage about the conditions on the ground here that we have been seeing year after year. We are very pleased they want to further expose the problems in the hope that competent authorities and industry will finally take action to … [Read more...] about Day 7: Inspection of livestock trucks at the Turkish border