Animal Welfare
- Brachycephalic Breeding in Germany
- The blatant breeding of animals with detrimental traits highlights significant shortcomings in the prevention and enforcement of harmful breeding practices.
- Animal-Assisted Services and Animal Welfare
- Animals play a crucial role in many social professions, with positive effects described in both theory and practice. For many years, the University of Gießen has offered scientific training in "Animal-Assisted Services," emphasizing the importance of animal welfare in social interactions with animals from the outset.
- PMSG Extraction from Mares
- The practice of using horses for blood collection has been sharply criticized in recent years. In particular, in South America and Iceland, pregnant mares are subjected to the extraction of five to ten liters of blood weekly to obtain the hormone PMSG/eCG (Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin/equine Chorionic Gonadotropin), which is used in pig farming.
- Just.Us + Tierschutz goes Podcast - Animal Welfare on Air
- When do chicks start feeling pain during incubation? What about pain-free piglet castration? How long can an animal transport last? Is breeding animals with so-called "extreme" traits, like the French Bulldog, a violation of animal welfare laws? And what do Icelandic mares have to do with pig farming in Germany?