This time a turkey fattening near Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) is affected. Two other cases are said to have been reported in Hamburg. The poultry industry in Schleswig Holstein is on high alert. The H5N8 pathogen is said to have evolved. The pre-flu has so far been localized in over 11 federal states, thousands of animals had to be culled. We reported.
Bonn, January 19.01.2017, 2017 - As part of the International Green Week 2018 in Berlin, the Animal Welfare Initiative announced details of the program for the years 2020 to XNUMX. This was recently agreed by the parties involved ...
Berlin, January 18, 2017. The consumer organization foodwatch and the Veterinarians' Association for Animal Welfare (TVT) have called on Federal Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt to abandon his plans for a voluntary "animal welfare" seal. It is "not suitable" for enforcing more animal protection, "because only a more or less small part of the animals can benefit from it and the problem-causing market mechanisms continue to have an unabated effect on the vast majority of animals," according to a statement on Wednesday in Berlin presented joint statement by the TVT chairman Prof. Dr. Thomas Blaha and the deputy foodwatch managing director and veterinarian Matthias Wolfschmidt...
Mainz / Berlin, January 18, 2017. For 2016, Bioland recorded record double-digit growth. The number of members of Germany's most important cultivation association for organic farming increased by 626 companies. At 10 percent, this is the largest growth in 15 years. 6.861 companies now operate according to the strict criteria of the Bioland association. Bioland farmers now farm 343.489 hectares. This corresponds to an increase of 38.560 hectares and thus 12,6 percent compared to the previous year. "We have to strengthen this dynamic in the coming years and offer even more conventional farmers a long-term perspective through conversion," says Jan Plagge, President of Bioland eV, in the run-up to the International Green Week...
"Animal welfare" is on everyone's lips. Encouraged by the suggestion of commercials and labels, consumers expect meat, milk and eggs to come from healthy animals. However, scientific studies have shown that the number of production-related diseases in conventional and organic husbandry is extremely high...
The industry-based animal welfare initiative welcomes every step towards more animal welfare in livestock farming. That is why she is open to the Federal Ministry's announcement that it wants to introduce a state animal welfare label.
South Korea. Avian influenza has also reached South Korea. Over 26 million chickens had to be slaughtered / culled, and the price of eggs rose sharply. This is the worst bird flu epidemic in the country's history.
Greenhouse gases such as methane (metane emissions) emitted by animals such as pigs, cattle, chickens and the like are not good for the environment. The consequences are global warming and natural disasters. The Federal Environment Agency is now demanding higher VAT for products of animal origin...
Bonn, January 05.01.2017th, 2018 – The draft program for the years 2020 to 2020 has been signed. This puts the animal welfare initiative on a secure contractual basis until 2017 and will continue to work for more animal welfare in livestock farming after the end of the first contract period in XNUMX...
In 2017, Aldi and Rewe will no longer use meat from pigs that have been castrated without being anaesthetized. The young, male piglets were castrated without anesthetization at an early age to avoid the boar meat taste (taste and smell often distinctly of urine).
Berlin, December 27, 2016. Against the background of the bird flu spreading to other poultry stocks, all poultry farmers must check the consistent, complete and careful implementation of biosecurity measures in their operations - and show even more effort than before to prevent the further spread of H5N8 - prevent virus...