On the 14th of January, a concerned-person driving along the A2 highway in the Netherlands filmed a poultry truck from the company Blom en Zonen on its way to a slaughterhouse. Click HERE to watch the footage. It was 3 degrees Celcius out and with the vehicle moving, conditions were made even colder for the poultry on board, being exposed to freezing winds. According to … [Read more...] about Transport company Blom en Zonen expose poultry to freezing cold winds
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Trailing Drost truck with German cattle via Holland to UK
An inspection team from Eyes on Animals and AWF|TSB was out on the road in the night of December 10th to conduct random inspections of animal transport trucks. We trailed a truck belonging to the Dutch transport company Drost that left a station in the Netherlands where cows can get milked and headed to the UK. The truck took the long boat crossing from Hoek van Holland to … [Read more...] about Trailing Drost truck with German cattle via Holland to UK
Practicing catching and loading hens in a gentle and upright manner
Spent laying hens are often caught and loaded in a brutal manner. This is not necessarily because chicken-catchers are mean people, but rather because the birds are worth very little at the end of their "productive life" and thus the slaughter industry and supermarkets put enormous pressure to keep costs low. Chicken-catchers are forced to catch and load birds at extreme … [Read more...] about Practicing catching and loading hens in a gentle and upright manner
Eyes on Animals meets with livestock trailer manufactuer “Pezzaioli”
Today Eyes on Animals met with a representative from Pezzaioli, a famous Italian company that manufactures livestock vehicles, used throughout Europe and now also in Turkey and Canada. The purpose of the meeting was to show how the design of some of their trailers were causing animal-welfare problems in practice. We noticed that adult cattle have difficulty using some of … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals meets with livestock trailer manufactuer “Pezzaioli”
EonA asked to be a part of EU-project to improve animal-welfare during transport
Eyes on Animals was asked to be a stakeholder in a 3-year EU-project to identify best practices on how to better protect animals from suffering during transport. Today we were in Brussels to give our first input. Our knowledge and evidence from the field was important to show what really goes on in practice, both the bad practices and the improvements some companies have … [Read more...] about EonA asked to be a part of EU-project to improve animal-welfare during transport