Overview

• The Bavarian food and veterinary authority KBLV imposed an animal-keeping and care ban on farm manager Martin E., requiring him to relinquish control of the Bad Grönenbach dairy and forbidding any influence over cattle operations.
• The authority said the decision followed months of review and was based on evidence of repeated breaches, including unauthorized electric prods, improper transport of animals, and medical interventions carried out without anesthesia.
• The ban is the second issued in this case after one against a worker, with four further KBLV proceedings still underway, including one targeting the farm’s owner.
• The dairy, housing roughly 2,200 cattle, has been scrutinized since undercover footage in 2019; criminal charges filed in 2020 against the owner and his son have yet to reach trial.
• Prosecutors in Memmingen are investigating the undercover investigator who filmed the latest material for potential legal violations, a move criticized by Soko Tierschutz as chilling for whistleblowers.