GERMANY- NEW FARM.
The construction of a pig facility for about 67,000 breeding and finishing animals in Northern Germany might end up in a court trial, the German agricultural magazine Top Agrar reports.
The plans for the construction, near the North Brandenburg town of Hassleben, led to protests last week in the city of Potsdam, close to the German capital of Berlin. The German animal welfare organisation had teamed up with the Brandenburg animal welfare organisation to announce the citizen initiative ’KontraIndustrieschwein’ – roughly translated as ’against industry pigs’.
The animal welfare activists have been fighting against the construction for five years now and they are quoted to be running out of patience.
