World News: Germany
Germany has just become the first country to outlaw the practice of ‘chick shredding’. Every year millions of male chicks are ground up alive or suffocated by the commercial egg industry. This i...
A case of the low-risk bird flu strain H7N7 has been found on a poultry farm in Emsland in north Germany, the state of Lower Saxony said on Monday. The 10,000 egg-laying hens on the farm have been ...
German discounter Netto Marken-Discount has announced that it is extending the range of GM-free products on sale in its stores, with the rollout of a new organic chicken range, labelled 'Gut Ponholz'....
After a European salmonella outbreak made hundreds ill, a Bavarian egg farm has come under suspicion. Foodwatch warned that labels and seals do not always mean eggs are safe, nor that the animals rece...
Germans have a special relationship with eggs, it seems. They have special bowls and crackers for them - and even color them all year round. For Easter, here's a look at Germany's adoration of the egg...
The German government says it wants to end the mass killing of male chicks within two years, becoming the first country to do so. Each year some 45 million male chicks in Germany are shredded short...
A vet from Leipzig has discovered a way of sexing chickens while still in the egg. This major breakthrough will spare male baby chickens from the chop after they hatch and has won the German scientist...
German company Paul-Heinz Wesjohann Group wants to buy Bulgarian Ameta Holding, owner of the “Ludogorsko pile”brand of poultry and poultry products and the PilCo processing plant in Razgrad. Bulgar...