An AWF/EonA team drives to the Turkish-Bulgarian border at Kapikule to check on animal transports shipping bovines from EU member states to Turkey. Inside the border, our team finds two vehicles of the Polish transport company Amsyl, which has already attracted negative attention last August when two animals died during transport and one after unloading at a stable near … [Read more...] about Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
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Drama at the EU/Turkey border
Again drama at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. This time it concerns 28 pregnant buffalos from northern Italy. They are being blocked inside the border because of a mistake in the paper-work. The buffalos arrived to the border last Wednesday morning (08.10.2014), after a trip of almost 2000 kilometres. The Bulgarian inspection post let them through but the Turkish have not. … [Read more...] about Drama at the EU/Turkey border
Inspection of livestock truck from Sleegers company on Hungarian highway
Compliments to the Dutch transport company "Sleegers". The EonA/AWF team in Hungary partly trailed and had stopped one of his trucks today on the highway near Szeged. On board were breeding boars and gilts from northern France. Conditions were according to the legislation; the boars were separated from eachother to avoid fighting, the gilts had plenty of space, and … [Read more...] about Inspection of livestock truck from Sleegers company on Hungarian highway
Unsuccessful follow-up inspection of Agrarcoop, Hungary
Today the EonA/AWF team attempted to do a follow-up check on the farm owned by Agrarcoop in Hungary. Agrarcoop is a large Hungarian company that fattens calves and exports cattle of all ages to slaughter and for further production, including to Turkey. In 2012 we visited their farm/export station and noted some positive and negative observations. Of big concern were … [Read more...] about Unsuccessful follow-up inspection of Agrarcoop, Hungary
Inspection Dutch spent-hens loaded onto truck destined for slaughter in Poland
A team from EonA and AWF checked on the loading of spent-hens at a farm in south Netherlands. The birds were destined for a slaughterhouse in Poland. The hens had been housed in so-called “enriched” cages their whole life and were grabbed by their legs and suspended upside down by chicken-catchers. Once the chicken-catchers had three suspended birds in each hand they would … [Read more...] about Inspection Dutch spent-hens loaded onto truck destined for slaughter in Poland