WIMEX Group controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2018
Criticism concerning agricultural subsidies
Reporting examined WIMEX's receipt of EU agricultural subsidies and argued that public payments were insufficiently linked to environmental and animal-welfare performance.
2017
Further allegations concerning farm conditions
Reports by Frontal 21 and Spiegel Online discussed Animal Rights Watch footage from several WIMEX farms. The material showed injured or dead birds and raised allegations concerning killing methods, access to feed and water, and the suitability of the husbandry system.
2017
Environmental pollution and land-concentration criticism
Environmental and agricultural organizations criticized WIMEX over alleged ammonia emissions, nitrate pollution, and its role as a large agricultural-land investor in eastern Germany. Correctiv reported that groundwater nitrate levels around farms near Baasdorf exceeded the applicable limit.
2016
Animal-welfare allegations involving WIMEX farms
Panorama broadcast footage released by Animal Rights Watch concerning farms associated with agricultural-industry officials, including WIMEX parent-stock farms. Leopold Graf von Drechsel confirmed the footage's origin and acknowledged poor treatment of some injuries.
2010
Alleged cruelty at a parent-stock contract farm
Footage broadcast by Report Mainz and released by PETA showed workers mistreating chickens at a WIMEX contract producer's farm. PHW Group, which bought the hatching eggs, acknowledged that the conduct shown was animal cruelty and said it was incompatible with its welfare standards.
Allegations of vegetable waste
Local critics alleged that fresh vegetables were discarded and plowed into fields rather than sold or donated. WIMEX responded that such disposal could result from strict retail specifications and was not unusual in vegetable production.