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Animal Welfare Takes Center Stage at Leuven’s Traditional Cattle Market: “Impulse Buying Can No Longer Continue”

From VRT NWS · () Dutch

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  • Leuven’s 76th annual market continued the tradition of bringing cattle to Sint-Jacobsplein in the city center.
  • Coordinator Johan Boyen, who has organized the event’s rural presence for more than 20 years, said animal welfare has changed the tradition.
  • He said impulse purchases like those made in the past can no longer continue.

For several hours, Sint-Jacobsplein once again became a cattle market during Leuven’s 76th annual fair, continuing a long-standing tradition.

For more than 20 years, coordinator Johan Boyen has brought the countryside into the center of the city. But he acknowledges that no tradition remains completely untouched by change.

“Impulse purchases like those in the past can no longer continue,” Boyen said. Animal welfare has moved to the center of the event.

Impulse purchases like those in the past can no longer continue.

· Johan BoyenThe Leuven cattle-market coordinator described how changing animal-welfare standards have altered the tradition.
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