Abstract
A report on novelties on legislation and jurisprudence in Germany in recent months. The report by Ms. Havenstein, a graduate of the second edition of the Master in Animal Law and Society, discusses three situations that have had special prominence in Germany in recent months, specifically cases involving the disposal of male chicks at chicken hatcheries, the uncovering of animal abuse at a large pig holding, and the prison sentence of a man convicted of animal abuse against his dog.
Highlights
To open proceedings for trespassing against the animal rights activists
The German animal welfare act establishes that it is a criminal offence to kill a vertebrate animal without reasonable cause
In September 2013, the Ministry decided that, after a transitional period of one year, the killing of male chicks will be forbidden in the Federal State
Summary
To open proceedings for trespassing against the animal rights activists. The authority referred to § 152 paragraph 2 of the German Penal Procedure Code (StPO). According to the opinion of the public prosecuting authority of Münster the fact that they are not useful for production is not reasonable cause to kill the chicks and that this common practice constitutes a violation of the German animal welfare act. The German animal welfare act establishes that it is a criminal offence to kill a vertebrate animal without reasonable cause.
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