According to Varkens in Nood, 2,3 million more pigs are kept in the Netherlands every year than is officially allowed. The Producers Organization Pig Farming (POV) rejects the claims.
Pigs in Need substantiates the allegation by comparing statistics. According to figures from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl), the Netherlands produces around 25 million pigs annually (based on the number of pig rights issued).
With the calculation of Pigs in Need, the production comes to 27,3 million pigs, which means that 10% of the production would be illegal. To arrive at this calculation, the organization multiplied, among other things, the number of registered breeding sows by the average number of live born piglets per sow.
Chance of getting caught is small
According to Varkens in Nood, there is also a 'gap' in the export figures: the German import figure is 1 million higher than the Dutch export figure. Pig farmers have a free playing field to cheat, according to Pigs in Nood, as pigs do not have individual ear tags. Since only 2% of the companies are checked, the chances of being caught are small for the entrepreneurs.
The calculation of Pigs in Need is endorsed by Robert Hoste, pig production economist at Wageningen Economic Research. Hoste informs RTL Nieuws that the outcome is not proof that fraud is actually being committed. "We need more evidence for that." The Public Prosecution Service says that dozens of entrepreneurs are convicted every year because they keep more pigs than is allowed.
Allegation is wrong
Linda Janssen, chair of the POV, in turn says that the claim is a misconception, since pig farmers often state the number of stables in the CBS census. In practice, these are not always occupied, which means that the number of breeding sows is actually lower.
Janssen knows that entrepreneurs have been fined for keeping more pigs, but the illegal numbers are much lower than the 2,3 million that Pigs in Need claims.
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I see that Robert Horste as the new mafia clubs to which pigs in need and all our animal activists belong, they have the mouth full of someone else who is not doing well, but they themselves drive a car and travel by plane, eat vegetarian, which also comes from the farmer, what grew on animal manure, clean their dishes with the highly polluting cleaning tablets, eat the pill whose hormones eventually end up in the sea via their urine. What an annoying people that becomes, every citizen in these modern times really knows how to make his own choice and responsibility himself, we should not let those kinds of individuals read the bet, I think they are just dumbass of society that mafiozie