Production & slaughter

Correctly implementing animal welfare in slaughterhouses

When it comes to animal welfare issues when slaughtering cattle and pigs, experience and expertise are necessary in order to be able to adequately assess the associated processes and identify critical areas. An in-person training course from the QS Academy focuses on the topic of animal protection during slaughter...

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Dual-purpose chickens produce better meat

Dual-purpose chickens have received particular attention since the ban on killing chicks in Germany in January 2022. Both the eggs and the meat can be used with them. Dual-purpose chickens are an ethical alternative, but what about the taste? As part of a research project at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, led by the Naturland Association of Baden-Württemberg, students from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Heilbronn were called upon to assess the sensory properties of meat and eggs from organic production...

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Scientists and Tönnies are calling for changes to the stunning rules

An extraordinary alliance of science, NGOs and the Tönnies company calls on politicians to take action to further increase animal welfare when stunning and slaughtering farm animals. It is urgently necessary to subject the CO2 stunning to a critical examination, to adapt the electrical stunning to the current knowledge and to accelerate the approval process for further research projects ...

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Effortlessly fading and degreasing with the hand-skinner HSK8-P3 by FRIEND

Paderborn - when processing pork and beef cuts, the pneumatic hand derinder HSK8-P3 from FREUND Maschinenfabrik in Paderborn impresses with many innovative advantages for the user. It is used to effortlessly rind and degrease ham and shoulders and always achieves a guaranteed equally good processing result with a constant slice thickness ...

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Lidl will soon offer meat in four qualities

"Lidl has a new idea in terms of meat." We will bring out the Lidl-holding compass in April in order to make more transparency for consumers, "said purchasing boss Jan Bock in an interview with WELT, according to a four-stage model based on the EU -wide mandatory labeling system for eggs ... "

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