Our innovative re-design of automatic electric pig stunning and improvement of handling procedures in order to enable the quick phasing out of painfulCO2 stunning, have been published in Vet Record. Vet Record is a respected veterinary journal published by the British Veterinary Association (BVA). These articles appeared after Vet Record attended our presentation at … [Read more...] about Vet Record journal publishes articles about EonA’s improvements to electric stunning so that abattoirs can move away from CO2 gas
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Training presentation for Japanese Meat Technology Institute and Japanese pig abattoirs on how to improve electric stunning (and avoid CO2)
Eyes on Animals met with delegates from JAMTI (Japan Meat Technology Institute), university researchers and several managers from pig abattoirs in Japan to discuss how pig slaughter could be improved so that suffering and stress are decreased. The focus of our presentation was on a project we carried out at making high-through put automatic electric stunning much more … [Read more...] about Training presentation for Japanese Meat Technology Institute and Japanese pig abattoirs on how to improve electric stunning (and avoid CO2)
Follow-up visit to Ampomaa pig farm and slaughter slab
Today a team from WACPAW/EonA conducted a follow-up visit at Ampomaa pig farm and slaughter-slab. This was the place where we were last year to teach them how to use captive bolt stunners and to give them a captive bolt stunner. We do this so that we can bring an end to the pigs being clubbed to death. The guys at the farm are now stunning each pig first, to render them … [Read more...] about Follow-up visit to Ampomaa pig farm and slaughter slab
Day 2: Training employees and improving automatic electric stunning of pigs as a more humane alternative to CO2
EonA team members Madelaine, Kees, Jan and Lesley finishing up a 2-day training of all employees working at a pig slaughter plant. Together with the help of Temple Grandin and the open- attitude of this plant we got major improvements in place over the past 3 years. This plant did not want to switch to CO2 gas because of its aversive effect but wanted to see if electric … [Read more...] about Day 2: Training employees and improving automatic electric stunning of pigs as a more humane alternative to CO2
Training employees and improving automatic electric stunning of pigs as a more humane alternative to CO2
Today we were busy all day giving welfare trainings to small groups of employees of a large pig slaughterhouse. Tomorrow we will return as 50 employees in total are participating. We worked with this slaughterhouse for the past 3 years to drastically improve the design of automated electric pig stunning and the way pigs are moved through it, in an effort to help phase out … [Read more...] about Training employees and improving automatic electric stunning of pigs as a more humane alternative to CO2