Lusiaves temporarily lost the animal welfare seal after the release of shocking images with workers from one of its factories to assault dozens of injured and dead chickens.
Welfair, the entity responsible for Certification of animal welfaresuspended the certification on March 17, temporarily, “until August 2025,” as the official source says to the Lusa news agency.
Lusiaves is now to be investigated Through the entity, after expressing himself against the suspension, “claiming that it was an episode involving four workers,” as the same source as Welfair.
In February this year, an RTP report on the “” had already released images of employees to assault several birds with sticks.
The Portuguese group, which leads the poultry sector, suspended four employees of an exploration in Figueira da Foz.
Now, the association has released other images that show workers to assault the birds, and dozens of injured and dead chickens.
The images were released on the association’s Instagram social network during the weekend and, allegedly, were captured in November, in a Quinta da Lusiaves in Figueira da Fozwhich was certified with the Welfair Seal since 2022.
In the publication of the Animal Front, workers can be assaulted the animals, birds injured, with broken wings and exposed organsand dozens of dead animals.
Lusiaves guarantees that it was “isolated episode” and guilt workers
Lusiaves confirmed the opening of an inquiry process, which resulted in the suspension of four employees in the face of evidence of “practices contrary to animal welfare, committed to the company’s total default“.
After internal inquiries in various group explorations, Lusiaves concluded that it was an “isolated episode” and only attributable to the four suspended employees.
Welfair sent an auditor on Thursday, accompanied by a head of the national certifying entity, but No mistreatment were verified on the road
In the slaughterhouse with which the farm usually works, a “higher than expected mortality“That is, a number of chickens was sent higher than expected.
From there, Welfair recommended the Temporary Suspension of the Sealwhile the investigation continues.
This means that this certification cannot appear in the lusiaves meat packaging that are put to sale, and that ensures the consumer the fulfillment of good practices of.
