Westerlo Saturday morning protested about 150 people at the gate of one of the largest slaughterhouses of our country. The activists hung homemade slogans at the gate, the protest went on peacefully under police supervision.
The slaughterhouse Sus Campiniae in Oevel was the beginning of december 2018 of the Flemish minister Joke Schauvliege no new environmental permit. A few weeks later the company asked for a suspension of that decision to the Council of State, that this request is however rejected. There was subsequently repealed by the department of Enforcement is an administrative measure prepared in which the slaughterhouse all the necessary measures to be taken to all licensing activities from 9 August to stop.
“The company announced a new environmental permit have applied for, maah, it can not be that they are all the time working without a permit?”, it sounds indignant at the initiator Benjamin Loison. “It is a symbolic action to show that we don’t correctly find what here is going on currently. It may also not be right about the cemetery, such a large slaughterhouse.”
After a briefing attracted the participants to the gate of the company where they are all created to draw attention to the slaughter of the animals, and this even without the environmental permit. Then they hung their home-made texts to the gate and fence of the company, after which a minute silence was held.
“We are aware of argue because we think it is important for the community to support and because we ourselves against slaughterhouses, that is not of this time”, says Jessica De Sousa. “Local residents already complain of odour nuisance, and that certainly can’t be close to the cemetery.”