Emil Färber

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Emil Färber
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1877
Seat Emmendingen
management Manfred Kempter
Number of employees 608
sales 178.6 million euros
Branch Meat producer
Website www.faerber.de
As of December 31, 2018

The Emil Färber GmbH & Co. KG is one of the largest meat producer in Baden-Wuerttemberg with headquarters in the city of Emmendingen . The company was founded in Villingen in 1877 as a local cattle dealer and now has 30 locations in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate , Brandenburg and Saxony .

Neuruppin slaughterhouse

Which belongs to the company Neuruppiner slaughterhouse was at the initiative of animal welfare involved and killed mainly bio - pigs . Customers were inter alia. the Bio Company with 60 branches in Berlin , Brandenburg, Dresden , Hamburg and Potsdam and the Biomanufaktur Havel country, the football club Hertha BSC , the Berlin snack Curry 36 as well as various organic wholesalers , restaurants and catering services supplied, which also day care centers and schools catering provide.

At the beginning of January 2021, the German Animal Welfare Office published secret video recordings from August 2020 that prove that animal welfare was violated in the company . Pigs were apparently killed and tortured with inadequate anesthesia . Criminal charges had already been filed against those responsible at the slaughterhouse in November 2020 , on the basis of which the Neuruppin public prosecutor had started investigations .

attitude

On January 7, 2021, the abattoir was closed and the abusive butcher fired. The Bio Company and other customers had ended their cooperation, and the slaughterhouse was also blocked in the QS scheme . The official veterinarian of the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district withdrew the necessary certificate of expertise for stunning during slaughtering from two employees.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated financial statements for the financial year of Emil Färber GmbH & Co. KG from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018, viewed on bundesanzeiger.de
  2. ↑ Michael Sauer: Emmendinger meat processing company operates in a niche. In: Badische Zeitung . November 9, 2020, accessed January 7, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Company. faerber.de, accessed on January 7, 2021 .
  4. ↑ a b c Beaten, kicked & failed stunning - animal torture in the “organic slaughterhouse”. German Animal Welfare Office , January 5, 2021, accessed on January 7, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Business customers. Bio Manufaktur Havelland, accessed on January 7, 2021 .
  6. ^ A b Benjamin Lassiwe: The organic slaughterhouse in Neuruppin is being investigated for cruelty to animals. In: Tagesspiegel . January 6, 2021, accessed January 7, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Cruelty to animals in the slaughterhouse? In: Sächsische.de . January 6, 2021, accessed January 7, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Björn Haase-Wendt: Suspicion of cruelty to animals in Neuruppiner organic slaughterhouse. In: rbb24 . January 6, 2021, accessed January 7, 2021 .