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A pig stands on a slatted floor in a bare, soiled pen and looks into the camera; a chain with a piece of wood hangs behind it.

Buut'n Gewoon

Rouveen · Pigs

Beter Leven 1 star

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Buut'n Gewoon in Rouveen keeps pigs. This location holds the Beter Leven 1 star certification.

Buut’n Gewoon is the pig farm of Pieter Post and Klaas Mijnheer. Their breeding farm has 360 sows and 3,400 fattening pigs. They produce for Jumbo, within Van Loon Group's “Varken op z’n Best” concept.

In March 2026 Post and Mijnheer received the “GefeliciStaart cake” from the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals (Dierenbescherming), because they stopped docking pigs' tails some time ago. On social media the pig farmers proudly post the GefeliciStaart video, with the caption that the Dierenbescherming is “very enthusiastic about how we work and how we treat our animals”.

At their farm Ongehoord filmed pigs with tail-bite wounds and serious abuse before transport. Pieter Post administers electric shocks to the pigs and pulls their tails. It is ironic that the label's ‘welfare improvement’ – keeping pigs with long tails – offers pig farmers new ways of abusing the animals. We also see two hauliers from Schuttert with electric prods. Schuttert is a pig trader that, by its own account, transports many Beter Leven pigs (1 star).

  • Investigation

    Pig farmer Loes cuddles piglets for a photo in the Telegraaf, but beats them to death when nobody is watching. Pig farmer Pieter is honoured by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals (Dierenbescherming) – on hidden camera footage he abuses his animals with an electric prod. At the three-star company Livar the pigs are, according to the Dierenbescherming, "simply content". Investigation group Ongehoord filmed serious tail biting there: a behavioural disorder that points to stress and frustration in the animals.

5 sources

  1. TN Duroc past volgens Pieter Post in solide verdienmodel. Varkens, 2025.

    varkens.nl

  2. Facebookpagina VarkensMijnheer.

    facebook.comOriginal no longer reachable (checked 2026-10-17)

  3. Varkens met krulstaarten, het is mogelijk. Dierenbescherming, 2026.

    dierenbescherming.nl

  4. Facebookpagina Buut’n Gewoon.

    facebook.com

  5. Varkenshandel Schuttert.

    schuttert.nl