In Oevel, near Westerlo in the Antwerp Kempen region, some 150 activists from the animal rights organisation Bite Back Saturday will be a demonstration conducted at the slaughterhouse Sus Campiniae. Also Flemish mp Hermes Sanctorum was present. The slaughterhouse was awarded in december no new environmental permit, integrating the former Flemish minister Joke Schauvliege (CD&V), but is now still open.
The slaughterhouse of NV The Lokery would now already again a licence application submitted and pending activities may continue until 9 August. “We think that’s outrageous,” says Benjamin Loisin of Bite Back. “Here are annually two million pigs slaughtered, or one in six in Belgium-carcasses of swine, and that without a licence. The owners seem to want to be messing about until everyone’s forgotten and they got a permit. We will be the situation here, however, the attention of continue to keep.”
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Loisin says the dossier in the coming months will continue to follow-up, together with the local action group “Oevel without slaughterhouse”. Bite Back will also re objection filing against a possible licence.
