Stress Responses of Cattle to Transport
Introduction This comment provides an overview of the potential stress-responses of cattle to transport and how it affects their welfare....
Stress in a Piglet's Environment
Introduction I watched the film Dominion a few days ago and could see many factors, which are causing stress in intensive farming. ‘In...
Live Exports
I live in Germany. Here, we export high numbers of farm animals. For example, we send over 100,000 pigs to Ukraine and Moldova each year...
The Brain Structure of Fish – Can they feel Pain?
”I only eat fish.”Why do you have a video with fish?” These are popular phrases from pedestrians on “Cube of Truth” Events. At those...
Welfare Standards in Pig Farming and Transport
In this reflection, you will also find photographs I have taken of pigs in different conditions in front of the Leine-Fleisch GmbH...
Meet the Pigs – A Portrait
Introduction 2017 57,9 million pigs were slaughtered in Germany (Albert Schweitzer Stiftung). More than 40% of the farmed meat worldwide...
Ethical Consideration of Animals
Introduction ‘The moral status of animals is, that they are just products…they are separated from moral society’ (Cavalieri 2002: 56)....
Humans: The One and Only?
Scientists have been researching the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto since 1967. A study...
Humane Slaughter?
Case Oldenburg Again, there is a slaughterhouse charged for cruelty against non-human beings. After another slaughterhouse in Bad Iburg...
