The Bayer company from 56357 Niederwallmenach presents itself:

The Bayer company runs the last working slaughterhouse in the Rhein-Lahn, Rheingau-Taunus, Westerwald and Limburg regions up to and including the Rhein-Main area.  The business is now managed by the fourth generation of the Bayer family.  It offers everything from slaughtering facilities to sausage and ham production under a single roof.  In the meantime the company premises in Niederwallmenach have a very modern operation combining hygiene and technology of the highest standards with traditional butchering skills, with the objective of producing top class quality.  

Reliable supplies of high quality animals are absolutely essential for producing quality products.  We achieve this guarantee with a large number of measures the like of which cannot be found in Germany .

The persons responsible at the Bayer company have been observing trends in the trade in  Europe and have noted that small and medium sized slaughterhouses are closing down (The  Bayer company is an SME) and slaughtering is increasingly being centralised in large slaughterhouses.  This centralisation and the associated concentration of fattening areas is exerting an increasingly detrimental impact on livestock husbandry, the disposal of liquid manure, the procurement of animal feed, animal transportation all the way to tethering up the animals in pens in the slaughterhouse.  At Bayer we believe that it is in the interest of maintaining the quality of meat and not least also in terms of treating animals and nature in an ethical manner to leave the production sites locally throughout Europe , since animal husbandry and agriculture do not lend themselves to being subjected to the constraints of centralisation and rationalisation.  They depend on natural growth.    

That is why the Bayer family, out of their responsibility towards the consumer, decided to buck the trend and maintain their slaughterhouse and reorganise it in such a way to counteract the detrimental impact of centralisation and in doing so offer the farmers in the region a future.  The top priority in this reorganisation was to provide the best possible animal welfare and as a result the best quality meat.  The "Institut für schonenden Umgang mit Zucht- und Schlachttieren"[1] provided support and assistance during the planning stage and while the reorganisation was being carried out. As a result of their support, the latest scientific findings were also included in the decision-making.  

The many beneficial effects of this company commitment include for example the licensing of Bayer as a business handling ecologically produced food.  The business has fulfilled the requirements for this ranging from handling animals for humane and proper slaughtering to establishing trace and track systems for pieces of meat in an exemplary fashion.

The supplier farmers were incorporated into the scheme with contractual directives in line with the company motto "From the region.  For the region."  Almost all the animals delivered to us, and up to in excess of 90% of them which are delivered by the farmers themselves, have a journey of less than one hour.  This means that their distress is reduced to a minimum.       

We are certain that with our overall business concept we have chosen a way which can be regarded as being ethical slaughtering, and that the increasingly discerning customer will be satisfied with the resultant quality of our meat.

You will find many of our products, many of which have in the meantime been awarded with a top DLG[2]-prize, in our own butcher’s shops:

Þ             Metzgerei Bayer , 56357 Niederwallmenach, Schulstraße 1

Þ            Metzgerei Oberländer , 56355 Nastätten, Römerstraße 27

Þ             Metzgerei Crecelius , 56357 Miehlen, Haargasse 1

Þ             Metzgerei Bayer , 65366 Geisenheim, Taunusstraße 15

Þ            Metzgerei Sulzbach , 65343 Eltville, Bertholdstraße 42

Þ            Metzgerei Bayer , 65343 Eltville, Schwalbacher Str. 10

        (Pedestrian precinct)

as well as from: 

Þ             Fleischbox Bayer GmbH, 65462 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg,

a well-known supplier specialising in large-scale catering establishments, the catering trade and the snack-bar trade in the Rhein-Main area.

In addition to which, we supply a large number of well-known suppliers such as butchers, business in the catering trade, large-scale catering establishments and some supermarkets near you.  That is why you ought to ask where you buy your meat and sausage where they buy their meat.  Because whether the agriculture in your region has a future or not, and whether we can therefore continue to provide safe, tasty food depends solely on whether you buy our produce or not.  So with regard to food it is, in the final analysis, up to you to prevent us from becoming ever more dependant upon foreign imports, since as a result, you will have less and less of a say in how food is produced.

We still believe that enjoyed in reasonable quantities, sausage and meat form an important part of a balanced diet, especially for children and those with active lifestyles, and contribute to good health and wellbeing.