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Animal suffering in Lucerne: Inspection uncovers serious grievances

What authorities discover in a Lucerne threshing barn is staggering. TierCrime with VanDam asks why severe animal suffering is so often classified merely as inadequate husbandry.

Editorial Wild beim Wild — 28 December 2025

In Lucerne, authorities conducting an unannounced inspection encounter an animal keeping situation that leaves one speechless. Too many animals, too little space, and conditions that are barely imaginable.

What they discover in the threshing barn, the residential building, and an old pigsty illustrates vividly: animal suffering often begins quietly, hidden from view and without public attention.

Dami asks critical questions: How can such conditions go unnoticed for years? Why does the justice system so frequently classify severe suffering merely as inadequate husbandry?

Vani explains how the law assesses such cases, what legal hurdles exist, and where the limits of the system become visible.

TierCrime with VanDam tells true cases of animal cruelty from Switzerland.

For the animals who have no voice.

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