Hot branding banned in Germany
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Germany’s Federal Cabinet has amended the country’s Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the hot or burn downwardly branding of horses.
Several High German Equus caballus breed organisations had fought the introduction of the ban, with the Holsteiner, Hanoverian in addition to Trakehner breeds working together to continue hot branding.
“That is rattling unfortunate, simply that was to last expected,” said Theodor Leuchten, chairman of the breeding sectionalisation of the High German Equestrian Federation (FN).
European Union police pull requires horses to last individually identified.
DNA typing in addition to microchipping volition at i time last the sole agency of identification inward Germany, Leuchten said.
The Trakehner Verband said inward 2010 that enquiry into hot branding had been “very unfair in addition to non objective”. It said the effect dealt alongside “the cardinal query of whether Equus caballus breeders are fauna abusers.”
It said that “animal activists” come across hot branding every bit an “unnecessary cruelty to animals in addition to therefore a violation of the Animal Welfare Act.”
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