“Screaming pigs cooked alive in slaughterhouse” | Inland

The animal rights organization wants the slaughterhouse to be accountable in court for alleged structural animal cruelty. This is evident from the declaration in the hands of De Telegraaf. The pigs were not properly killed before they went into the hot bath, according to the indictment.

Between the fall of 2018 and mid-2019, the slaughterhouse went wrong four times and drowned pigs while they were still alive. Inspectors of the NVWA saw it happen before their own eyes, according to the inspection reports.

‘Fines have no effect’

The slaughterhouse concerned received no less than four fines of 1500 euros for this, but these do not seem to have a deterrent effect, says Frederieke Schouten, director of Varkens in Nood. “Those fines in no way do justice to the seriousness of the crimes.”

According to criminal lawyer Christiaan Vingerling, prosecution is possible. “It is clear that in the slaughterhouse in question there is repeated structural, unnecessary animal suffering that could have been prevented. This serious animal cruelty calls for criminal sanctions. ”

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