Animals The director of the controversial slaughterhouse in Tielt must appear before the judge for various infringements on the dierenwetgeving. Animal rights organisation Animal Rights brought the malpractice in the slaughterhouse, one and a half years ago at the light with a undercovervideo.
A staff member of Animal Rights worked for a month undercover at the slaughterhouse. On the images that he made, you can see how workers the pigs, kicking and beating, and also the ears pull. Also the anesthesia of the animals is not flawless: some pigs are still alive when they are gekeeld or struggling even if they are in a bath with water of 60 degrees end up. the
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by order of the competent minister Ben Weyts (N-VA) was the slaughterhouse for a time closed. Meanwhile, it was also a judicial investigation is started, that is now complete. the
The public prosecutor’s office suggested multiple breaches of the dierenwetgeving. “Which relate to the welfare of the animals, on the conditions in which the pigs are slaughtered and there are also breaches in hygiene adopted,” says prosecutor Johan Lescrauwaet of the Belgian public prosecutor to VTM NEWS.
The public prosecutor’s office finds the facts important enough to be the managing director of the company for the right to drag. The process start on 25 February. The employees of the slaughterhouse are not prosecuted, but the company as an organization is sued.
action Plan
The management board of the slaughterhouse, after the facts, an action plan drawn up so that such malpractice in the future can’t happen. To their proper operation to demonstrate continued the company re-open their doors.
This summer there was again an incident in the slaughterhouse when a sixty activists of the French animal rights organisation 269 Libération Animal to the slaughterhouse and hacked and even a pig with them. It is still unclear whether these activists are also the court will have to answer. That research is not yet completed and is entirely separate from the investigation into the abuses at the slaughterhouse.
