Farmers with a professional ban are blacklisted

The House of Representatives wants farmers with a professional ban in 1 of the European member states to be blacklisted. Pigs in Need will announce this on Thursday 14 September.

Frank Futselaar (SP) and Femke Merel Arissen (PvdD) submitted a motion for this. They want livestock farmers to be able to stop working in the Netherlands with a foreign professional ban.

Futselaar and Arissen's motion was passed with a large majority. The SP, GroenLinks, D66, the Party for the Animals, the PvdA, the PVV, 50PLUS and DENK voted in favor of the motion.

Petition was the cause
The Pigs in Need petition, with which the organization last month started, fueled the motion. The organization started a petition for a professional ban against pig farmer Straathof, in whose stables several abuses were found.

Kimberly Baker

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