29 Cents for an Empty Shampoo Bottle: Inside Germany’s Return Scheme for Cosmetics Packaging
A start-up in Heilbronn takes empty cosmetics packaging back through beverage machines and pays 29 cents. What works already, what does not, and whether the four brands are vegan.
Three Times More Often Against: Study Reveals Agricultural Interests in the EU Parliament
Some studies prove what many already suspect. This is one of them, and it comes with a number: MEPs with private financial interests in the agricultural and food sector voted roughly three times more often against environmental protection measures than…
Bird Flu on a US Mink Farm: Why the Case Puts Pressure on the EU
In Salt Lake County, Utah, US authorities last week confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza on a mink farm for the first time. What sounds like a local notice is the latest entry on a list that has been growing since…
Outside for the First Time: Tigress Saphira and Her Five Cubs Explore Their New Enclosure
Born in circus wagons on an industrial site, raised behind bars: six tigers from a private facility in northern Saxony have just experienced something entirely new. For the first time, the gates to an outdoor enclosure opened, with real ground…
“The Perpetrators Are Completely Ordinary People”: Wiebke Plasse on Animal Cruelty on Social Media
Nobody would stand in a marketplace with a cat and shout: “I’m going to torture her now, who wants to watch?” On social media, exactly that happens every day, millions of times over. Wiebke Plasse of the German organisation Welttierschutzgesellschaft…
Müller Buys Berief: What the Takeover Means for Everyone Who Shops Plant-Based
For forty years, Berief from Beckum was one of Germany’s largest independent producers of plant-based foods. Since July 2026 that era is over: Berief Food GmbH now belongs entirely to Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, the corporation behind Müllermilch. For anyone who…