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Animal Rights

Petition: Germany Needs a Real Animal Protection Law

How animals in Germany are bred, kept, traded, and killed is regulated by the Animal Protection Act and its associated ordinances. This applies to both farm animals and companion, wild, and laboratory animals.

Editorial Wild beim Wild — 21 May 2023

Animal Protection Law Protects Industry, Not Animals

The law allows millions of animals in Germany to suffer: in the most confined spaces, through mutilation of body parts and torture breeding. In reality, the Animal Protection Act primarily protects human interests.

Petition for Real Animal Protection

The federal government wants to revise the Animal Protection Act. The majority of citizens want stronger animal protection.Sign now for a real Animal Protection Act. More on the Topic Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Issues.

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More on the subject of recreational hunting: What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.

The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.