When reaching for the food shelf, every second EU citizen decides based on origin, cost, food safety and taste. Surprisingly, aspects such as animal welfare and the environment lag behind. In 12 of the 28 Member States, consumers surveyed believe the costs...
The Federal Association of the Regional Movement eV (BRB) drew attention to the dramatic decline in food craft businesses with a public campaign on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. "Butchers, bakers, innkeepers and farmers who work in the regional economic cycle...
From January to June 2019, Belgian meat suppliers exported 380.008 tonnes of pork worldwide - a drop of 6,6 percent compared to the same period last year. This emerges from the provisional Eurostat figures. The declining export figures...
"To save the climate, Germans are willing to dig deeper into their wallets at the supermarket checkout. This is the result of a survey by the opinion research institute Emnid for "Bild am Sonntag". Accordingly..."
The majority of Germans are in favor of food being labeled with the Nutri-Score nutritional value traffic light - this is the result of a representative survey by the Forsa Institute on behalf of several medical-scientific organizations and the consumer organization foodwatch...
In the first six months of 2019, 29,4 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses were slaughtered in commercial slaughterhouses in Germany. Including poultry, the slaughterhouses produced 3,9 million tons of meat. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports...
“Wanting to achieve more animal welfare through a flat-rate 'meat tax' is the wrong approach and doesn't work. The only thing that could be achieved would be an even greater distortion of competition at the expense of domestic producers...
Instead of 7%, 19% VAT is required on the meat. The agricultural politicians of the SPD and the Greens are demanding that the increased income should benefit animal welfare...
Although the term superfood has existed for many years, it has only recently gained increasing importance. It is neither legally protected nor precisely defined...
Jochen Geiger, head of the ÖKO division at Beiselen GmbH in Ulm, highlighted the importance of the organic market for us at the grain conference of the Association of German Grain Processors and Starch Manufacturers (VDGS eV), which recently took place in Weihenstephan...
Around 50 leading representatives of the European egg industry came together in Berlin this week for the General Assembly of EUWEP, the European industry association for egg production and the trade in eggs and egg products. The host and organizer of the meeting was the Bundesverband Deutsches Ei e. v...