Germany prides itself on its high animal welfare standards, enshrined as a national objective in its constitution since 2002. Yet animal welfare organizations fear the government is stepping back from ...

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Around 15,000 animals are to be culled at a poultry farm in southern-Germany after the country's leading animal disease centre confirmed the spread of bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture in the ...