The Animal Husbandry Labeling Act is currently in the parliamentary process. Now the traffic light factions have agreed on adjustments. The Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, says: "The introduction of the state's mandatory animal husbandry labeling for meat products is now a decisive step forward. Consumers finally have a real choice for more animal welfare, they can actively change animal husbandry support...

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The Bundestag has passed the draft law by the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, to amend the Veterinary Drugs Act. The aim is to better record and permanently reduce the active substance and application-related use of antibiotics in agricultural operations...

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Together with scientists and veterinarians, the meat marketer is developing a binding package of measures for more animal welfare in the stables - With the new Westfleisch offensive "animal health", the meat marketer from Münster wants to take animal welfare and animal health to a new level...

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The future of green genetic engineering in the EU is to be decided in mid-2023. The EU Commission is currently discussing proposals for far-reaching exceptions when using so-called New Genomic Techniques (NGT) such as CRISPR/Cas...

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From September 1st to 30th, 2022, interested piglet producers could register to participate in the Imitative Animal Welfare (ITW). The ITW is now completing the registration phase: In the future, a further 215 farms with a total of a good 2,19 million animals per year will take part...

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Consumers want to know under what conditions the animal whose product they have in their shopping basket was kept. The Federal Cabinet took an important step in this direction on Wednesday by passing the law introducing mandatory animal husbandry labeling by the state. Bioland welcomes the law according to which there are five levels of animal husbandry including a separate organic level...

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In Germany and Europe, the situation with avian influenza (poultry plague/HPAI) is deteriorating dramatically: an epidemic of unprecedented proportions is threatening the livelihoods of domestic poultry farmers. Even before the beginning of the bird migration season, there were an unusually large number of outbreaks of avian influenza over the summer...

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On the occasion of the German Veterinarians' Day and the Conference of Agriculture Ministers, the consumer organization foodwatch called for legal requirements for the health of farm animals and stricter controls on animal husbandry operations. foodwatch activists protested in Berlin at the meeting of the German Veterinarians' Association and called on the veterinarians to put pressure on those responsible in politics...

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The Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) resolutely rejects the draft law of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The intended law is largely incomplete, unnecessary and harbors major risks for animal welfare in Germany, according to the ITW in its statement on the draft bill The Law...

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Piglet rearers can register again for the Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW). Registration in the database is possible from September 1st to September 30th. The animal welfare fee of €3,57 is paid for each piglet that can be proven to have been delivered to a fattener who takes part in the ITW...

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In the last few days, pig farmers participating in the Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) have had their supply contracts terminated by the slaughterhouse. The interest group of pig farmers in Germany (ISN) has received corresponding feedback, which mostly concerned contracts with the slaughterhouse Tönnies...

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