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27. June 2018

Uruguay | Argentina | Horsemeat production

Slaughterhouse, Lamar: No weather protection for the horses.

Our follow-up investigation in Argentina and Uruguay in November and December 2017 showed that nothing has changed since our first investigation in 2012. We documented once again the whole production chain: horse collection centres, rodeos, transports and EU-approved slaughterhouses. At all places visited, horses are still systematically mistreated…

27. June 2018

Uruguay | Argentina | Horsemeat production

Slaughterhouse, Lamar: No weather protection for the horses.

Our follow-up investigation in Argentina and Uruguay in November and December 2017 showed that nothing has changed since our first investigation in 2012. We documented once again the whole production chain: horse collection centres, rodeos, transports and EU-approved slaughterhouses. At all places visited, horses are still systematically mistreated…

27. June 2018

Uruguay | Argentina | Horsemeat production

[Translate to English:] Schlachthof Lamar, Argentinien: Kein Witterungsschutz für die Pferde.

Our follow-up investigation in Argentina and Uruguay in November and December 2017 showed that nothing has changed since our first investigation in 2012. We documented once again the whole production chain: horse collection centres, rodeos, transports and EU-approved slaughterhouses. At all places visited, horses are still systematically mistreated…

27. June 2018

Uruguay | Region Canelones | Horse slaughterhouses

Ein Pferd, das schwerverletzt angeliefert wurde, bleibt bei Clay unversorgt.

Our follow-up investigation in Uruguay in April 2018 shows that the conditions at the slaughterhouses Clay and Sarel remain unchanged, despite the repeated assurances of the Swiss horsemeat importers to improve the situation. In the slaughterhouse pens, we once again find many injured, weak and emaciated horses, as well as pregnant mares and foals.…

22. June 2018

Germany | Bad Waldsee | Export of unweaned calves by Rinderunion

Our team has been observing the exports of unweaned calves from the Rinderunion at Bad Waldsee for more than a year now. The transporter S. Röck is required by the competent authorities to feed the calves mid-journey at the control post of Bardy Bresse in France, before the animals are carried on to the assembly centre  in Vic/ Spain. In autum 2017…

22. June 2018

Germany | Bad Waldsee | Export of unweaned calves by Rinderunion

Our team has been observing the exports of unweaned calves from the Rinderunion at Bad Waldsee for more than a year now. The transporter S. Röck is required by the competent authorities to feed the calves mid-journey at the control post of Bardy Bresse in France, before the animals are carried on to the assembly centre  in Vic/ Spain. In autum 2017…

22. June 2018

Germany | Bad Waldsee | Export of unweaned calves by Rinderunion

[Translate to English:]

Our team has been observing the exports of unweaned calves from the Rinderunion at Bad Waldsee for more than a year now. The transporter S. Röck is required by the competent authorities to feed the calves mid-journey at the control post of Bardy Bresse in France, before the animals are carried on to the assembly centre  in Vic/ Spain. In autum 2017…

20. May 2018

Uruguay | Slaughterhouses | Horsemeat from South America

[Translate to English:] Ein schwerverletztes Pferd steht auf drei Beinen, Eiter tropft aus der Wunde.

Our follow-up investigation in Uruguay in April 2018 shows that the conditions at the slaughterhouses Clay and Sarel remain unchanged, despite the repeated assurances of the Swiss horsemeat importers to improve the situation. In the slaughterhouse pens, we once again find many injured, weak and emaciated horses, as well as pregnant mares and foals.…

20. April 2018

Poland | Bodzentyn, Lagow | Monthly report March cattle & horse markets

In March, our team in Poland visited animal markets 9 times. Most of the horses brought to the market are selected for two dealers who buy animals in Bodzentyn regularly. Both belong to Italians. One company still transports horses to Italy. The other one has stopped and slaughters horses much closer, in Poland.
On the cattle market, the situation…