22 Jan.

Posted at 09:21h in General

ÖDP: This salami-slicing tactic is draining Berlin-Brandenburg's drinking water Tesla wants taxpayers' money for the world's largest battery factory. This news comes as a surprise to the state of Brandenburg, among others. The Tesla battery factory is to be built in Grünheide right next to the Gigafactory for electric cars. According to press reports, the Federal Ministry of Economics has allowed the US company to "provisionally start work", albeit...

21 Jan.

Posted at 17:44h in General

The federal government has initiated a ban on chick shredding from 2022. "Far too late!", says Manuela Ripa, MEP for the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). "Every year, 45 million male chicks are killed in this cruel, completely inhumane way. This should have been stopped a long time ago...

07 Jan.

Posted at 16:26h in General

Fewer and fewer young people in Germany are eating meat, but meat consumption is continuing to grow worldwide. This is the key finding of the current "Meat Atlas 2021" published by the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We now urgently need a change in the system: away from...

22 Dec.

Posted at 14:07h in Uncategorized

Our MEP's office in the EU Parliament will be closed from December 23 to January 3. I wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year 2021 and happy listening to our European Christmas greetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnA-JRUUEk Culture is systemically relevant: A European Christmas greeting Dear friends, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen...

21 Dec.

Posted at 09:28h in General

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed that EU member states have the fundamental right to introduce mandatory stunning before slaughter. This is a major and historic victory for greater animal welfare! Without stunning, slaughter processes, and slaughter in particular, are associated with unimaginable suffering for the animals. The background to this was the...

17 Dec.

Posted at 11:11h in General

Overall declining membership figures and the Covid-19 pandemic have made it very difficult for animal shelters and animal welfare organizations in Germany this year. Since, among other things, visits from the general public are not possible or only possible to a very limited extent in the fight against the pandemic, the general understanding of the situation of...