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24. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 2

Oft sind die Transporter überladen und nur wenige Tiere können sich hinlegen.

Today our team is busy at a parking lot near the border inspecting trucks with animals from various countries throughout the EU. On board are pregnant heifers, fattening calves and slaughter bulls. All animals are hot and thirsty. Some animals have been unloaded into small outdoor pens, but because these pens cannot hold many animals, most of them…

24. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 2

Oft sind die Transporter überladen und nur wenige Tiere können sich hinlegen.

Today our team is busy at a parking lot near the border inspecting trucks with animals from various countries throughout the EU. On board are pregnant heifers, fattening calves and slaughter bulls. All animals are hot and thirsty. Some animals have been unloaded into small outdoor pens, but because these pens cannot hold many animals, most of them…

24. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 2

Today our team is busy at a parking lot near the border inspecting trucks with animals from various countries throughout the EU. On board are pregnant heifers, fattening calves and slaughter bulls. All animals are hot and thirsty. Some animals have been unloaded into small outdoor pens, but because these pens cannot hold many animals, most of them…

23. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 1

[Translate to English:] [Translate to English:] Durstige Bullen lecken an Wänden und Gitterstangen.

Today a team of inspectors from TSB|AWF and our partner organisation, Eyes on Animals, from Holland arrives in Istanbul and drives to Kapikule at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. During one week we are going to inspect animal transporters bringing in animals from the EU to Turkey. While driving north on the highway, we observe 22 animal trucks passing…

23. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 1

[Translate to English:] [Translate to English:] Durstige Bullen lecken an Wänden und Gitterstangen.

Today a team of inspectors from TSB|AWF and our partner organisation, Eyes on Animals, from Holland arrives in Istanbul and drives to Kapikule at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. During one week we are going to inspect animal transporters bringing in animals from the EU to Turkey. While driving north on the highway, we observe 22 animal trucks passing…

23. June 2016

Turkey | Border Kapikule | Animal transports | Day 1

[Translate to English:] Durstige Bullen lecken an Wänden und Gitterstangen.

Today a team of inspectors from TSB|AWF and our partner organisation, Eyes on Animals, from Holland arrives in Istanbul and drives to Kapikule at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. During one week we are going to inspect animal transporters bringing in animals from the EU to Turkey. While driving north on the highway, we observe 22 animal trucks passing…

23. June 2016

USA | Middleburg - Pennsylvania | Horse auction | Horsemeat import

[Translate to English:] Wie Sardinen zusammengepackte Pferde, ohne Wasser, ohne Futter.

The Middleburg horse auction is frequented by a lot of members of the Mennonite and Amish communities who dump their worn-out work or buggy horses at the sale. Today, as usual, the slaughter horse pens are severely overcrowded, with horses packed in like sardines. There are five to seven horses tied next to each other, unable to move. The pens have…

23. June 2016

USA | Middleburg - Pennsylvania | Horse auction | Horsemeat import

[Translate to English:] Wie Sardinen zusammengepackte Pferde, ohne Wasser, ohne Futter.

The Middleburg horse auction is frequented by a lot of members of the Mennonite and Amish communities who dump their worn-out work or buggy horses at the sale. Today, as usual, the slaughter horse pens are severely overcrowded, with horses packed in like sardines. There are five to seven horses tied next to each other, unable to move. The pens have…

23. June 2016

USA | Middleburg - Pennsylvania | Horse auction | Horsemeat import

[Translate to English:] Wie Sardinen zusammengepackte Pferde, ohne Wasser, ohne Futter.

The Middleburg horse auction is frequented by a lot of members of the Mennonite and Amish communities who dump their worn-out work or buggy horses at the sale. Today, as usual, the slaughter horse pens are severely overcrowded, with horses packed in like sardines. There are five to seven horses tied next to each other, unable to move. The pens have…