Overview: The animal industry in and around the Oldenburg region
This year we are once again taking our joint protest to the hotspot of the German meat industry, in and around the Oldenburg region!
In the triangle formed by the cities of Bremen, Oldenburg, and Osnabrück, the density of livestock is higher than anywhere else in Germany; fattening facilities, slaughterhouses, sausage factories, and feed mills are lined up close together. And this is also where the biggest profiteers of this industry are located: the large meat corporations, above all PHW (Wiesenhof), Vion, Tönnies and Westfleisch.
We have put the largest slaughterhouses, dairies, processing plants and animal feed factories in the region on a map. Further down on this page you will also find graphics that illustrate the enormous number of animals in the region’s fattening plants.
Map: The largest animal industry operations in and around Oldenburg County
DARLING INGREDIENTS (Sonac) Fleischmehlfabrik in Brögbern
DARLING INGREDIENTS (Rendac) Tierkörperverwertung in Icker
Density of livestock in the region
The region has the highest livestock numbers in all of Germany. “The Meat Atlas” of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from 2018 contains a visualization of the dimensions:
Up-to-date graphics on the different animal species can be found in the Lower Saxony Farm Animal Husbandry 2021 report published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection: