Video footage shows duck farm still throwing ducks into cages

Dutch food Safety Committee The NVWA has pledged to take action against abusive duck breeders, who are known to abuse ducks by throwing them into cages, according to new footage.

Six years ago, duck farmers pledged to improve the way they treated their ducks, which are professionally crated and sent to slaughter, following an investigation by an animal rights campaign group.

Undercover photos taken at the time showed poultry workers throwing ducks into crates, and several of them were fined €1,500. But new footage shows the ducks being loaded into trucks Animal rights, take The use of drones suggests the practice is still going on. Spokesman Erwin Vermeulen told Broadcaster RTL.

NVWA spokesman Bjorn Elsebrock told RTL that inspectors regularly visit duck farms to check Above “That’s not what we’re seeing,” Elsbrock said. “So it seems like when the inspectors are not around, things can go horribly wrong.”

However, the animal rights group said the NVWA had only carried out six inspections of duck farms since the 2018 report, the last of which was in 2019. “This new video shows that the NVWA’s policies are ineffective and that fines and warnings have not led to a change in policy. Behavior” said Vermeulen.

He said farms that mistreat poultry should license The operation has been retracted.