Turkey | Ankara | Third visit of Başkent Slaughterhouse

Together with Eyes on Animals (NL) we visit Başkent slaughterhouse again. We share some updates and then make a little tour in the plant. The last time we had visited this plant they had made a number of improvements we had recommended during our first visit.  Please see here: http://www.halal-slaughter-watch.org/follow-up-inspection-of-baskent-slaughterhouse-in-ankara-turkey/.

Unfortunately today, during our third visit, we can not observe any further positive changes this time. Today we are not at all pleased with the way the staff is handling the animals. They use electric prods on the bulls' genitals and hit them hard with sticks. The floor of the restraint box is still higher than the raceway which means the cattle still risk getting their leg stuck and then crushed, as we saw during our first visit (https://youtu.be/On-qkoXeKwc).  Today we observe a bull almost get his leg caught between restraint box's platform and ground again like we filmed on October 2014. It makes us realize that such accidents are most surely happening everyday here. They still have not made any serious plans to improve or replace this unacceptable type of restraint box. As long as the Turkish government does not make them illegal, we can only keep trying to convince the owners of plants to make more ethical choices. We won't give up but are truly disappointed in the treatment of animals here still.