Tag: Dairy farming
Animal husbandry: “You don’t want to know that the schnitzel on your plate was more intelligent than your two-year-old.”
Cows, pigs and goats maintain friendships and have individual character traits. It is becoming increasingly clear to researchers: intelligent, sentient beings are on the slaughterhouse. What does this mean for…
Tethering in Bavaria: The daily suffering of cows – Bavaria
They are shocking images that don’t fit the picture book clichés about agriculture in Bavaria at all: young cattle, dairy cows and fattening cattle that are so fixed in boxes…
Allgäu animal welfare scandal: proceedings against dairy farmers start on Friday – Bavaria
It was the first of the so-called Allgäu animal protection scandals, which also led to investigations on other farms in the area around the Lower Allgäu health resort of Bad…
Bavaria: Third trial in the Allgäu animal welfare scandal – Bavaria
Animal rights activist Friedrich Mülln talks about the terrible conditions he found on the dairy farm in Bad Grönenbach, Swabia. As of Friday, three employees of the farm will therefore…
Alps: pastures under pressure
Climate crisis, mass tourism and now the wolf: the alpine cultural landscape is under threat. Is a valuable recreational space lost? A cry for help! source site
Cattle farming in Bavaria: Fewer farms, larger herds – Bavaria
Fewer farms, but larger stocks of animals: This trend is shown by figures from the State Office for Statistics on cattle husbandry in Bavaria. In the past ten years, the…
Archaeology: Early Dairy Farming Enabled the Settlement of Tibet – Knowledge
At first glance, settling on the roof of the world doesn’t seem like a particularly good idea. Tibet is considered one of the most inhospitable regions in the world, the…
Greenpeace calls for support for farmers: cows belong on the pasture – Bavaria
The environmental organization Greenpeace is calling for more support for farmers who keep their dairy cows on pastures instead of exclusively in stables. “The proportion of dairy cows that are…
Greenpeace: Cows belong on the pasture – Bavaria
The environmental organization Greenpeace is calling for more support for farmers who keep their dairy cows on pastures instead of exclusively in stables. “The proportion of dairy cows that are…
Upper Palatinate: How an old tie-stall became a modern cowshed – Bavaria
In the Upper Palatinate, a young part-time farmer shows how an old tie barn can be converted into modern cattle farming with the highest animal welfare standards with reasonable effort.…