An entirely different kind of reality

Admittedly, investments of €55 million do not apply to most farms. But by doing so, Boehringer Ingelheim created a research facility for animal health that is literally separated from its environment. Not a single particle comes in or goes out its Hanover, Germany-based vaccine research centre. You can’t get the status of being a highly secured laboratory if not every single detail is tried and tested very precisely. For that reason, the first batch of piglets that was ever allowed into