Pilmico helps distressed animals

Pilmico helps distressed animals

THE Aboitiz Group subsidiary Pilmico Foods Corp. helped a total of 10,985 animals left in areas affected by the recent eruption of Taal Volcano.

Pilmico assisted in retrieval efforts and donated animal feeds.

On Jan. 16, 2020, Pilmico together with the Batangas Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO), animal welfare and private organizations, local veterinarians and the media, rescued 1,817 hogs (which included sows, boars and piglets), 6,512 poultry animals (chickens, ducks and turkeys), 2,153 dogs and 503 cats that needed immediate care from Barangays San Sebastian, Looc, Sampaloc and Poblacion in Balete, Batangas.

These animals were left after the lockdown, and evacuation of affected towns around the volcano made it difficult for animal owners to return to their livestock.

Pilmico Animal Health territory business manager George Miranda and his team provided first aid by checking on and feeding the affected animals, and even administering medicines on animals that needed them.

Miranda said he felt inspired that he was able to use his expertise to help not just fellow Filipinos, but also the animals affected by the Taal eruption.

Pilmico also donated to the four barangays 42 bags of swine feeds, 10 bags of poultry feeds, multivitamins, anti-stress medicine and antibiotics for the animals. The remaining feeds and medicine will be reserved for another run of rescue and outreach operations in other affected areas in Batangas.

“We fully give our support to operations and programs such as these that enable us to live out our promise of being a Partner for Growth to backyard farmers. Hopefully, through our efforts with the local government, we empower the farmers that were affected to keep going, knowing that there are companies and organizations that they can rely on in trying times,” said Norie Bermudez, Pilmico first vice president and chief operating officer for feeds. (S)

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