Dear friends,
We have two GREAT news items that we want to share with you!
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Demeter egg farmers in the Netherlands switch to the EonA upright chicken-catching method
This February, Demeter egg producers in the Netherlands confirmed to us that they have decided to switch to the more humane upright EonA method of catching hens. This is a big step forward in the welfare of tens of thousands of laying hens in the Netherlands!
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Old 'conventional' method
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New upright method
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We have now successfully convinced Rondeel eggs, Kipster eggs, Gijs eggs and now all Demeter eggs too to abandon the conventional cruel and hurried method of catching hens by their legs and holding them inverted. More and more hens are now being caught gently and upright, one or maximum two at a time.
What started as a positive but semi-unrealistic idea is coming true thanks to our persistence and your support!
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EonA helps create Artificial Intelligence Camera Surveillance for slaughterhouses
Many governments and welfare-friendly food labels have now made camera surveillance mandatory inside slaughterhouses. Sounds good…but is it really effective? Normal video surveillance means someone actually has to watch the footage…and thus many welfare concerns remain undetected and unrecorded.
That is why, for the past two years, we worked with consultancy firm Deloitte, Vion Food Group and the Dierenbescherming on the development of an Artifical Intelligence Saughterhouse Camera Surveillance tool which detects, registers and sends a notice when there is an animal-welfare problem.
These automatically-detected video fragments are presented through a dashboard and sent to the Animal Welfare Officer of the slaughterhouse. In the future, we can even insist that we be able to view them, and auditors from welfare labels can also demand having access to them.
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A short animation video that explains how the system works
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Now this tool is ready and we are going public with it! Vion is now installing our AI camera surveillance in all of their slaughterhouses and next week we have meetings with some other European slaughterhouses interested in it too.
International media picked up on it. To see one of the large articles that was published in the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw about the AI camera surveillance tool, click here.
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This type of good news, that brings hope to us all, could only be achieved together. We are in the field and office, but you are our supporters giving us moral and financial aid. We could not do this without you. Thank you for being a part of Eyes on Animals and for all your support!
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Lesley Moffat
director Eyes on Animals
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