It comes to animal rights, then it is often heated. A call for more space in the barn, others do not want to be the cheap sausage from the Grill. And some demonstrate even an end to the livestock.
Blood splatters on the wall and the floor. The beef occurs to emit a sharp scream as the butcher with a deep cut separates his carotid artery. The animal is now really dead? The man kicks against his chest – no reaction. Previously, the butcher had tried with a bolt shot into the brain, to stun the cattle. Unsuccessful.
The bloody images come from a small slaughterhouse in the state of Brandenburg, in Fehrbellin in front of the gates of Berlin. They were filmed with a hidden camera and of the animal rights organization “Animal Rights Watch” at the end of last year. The slaughterhouse was even wearing the Bio-Siegel, was forced to close.
Exception or rule?
However, the goal of the activists is greater: the closure of all slaughterhouses. They spread horrible pictures from Fehrbellin. And for that, you go to the time in German cities took to the streets this Saturday in Stuttgart. “It’s not about us simply trying to kill animals for our needs,” says Achim trunk Berger of “Animal Rights Watch” of the DW. Scandals like the one in Fehrbellin are “simple normality in most of the slaughter houses.”
The cow should live Demonstration of “Animal Rights Watch”
The resist Heike Harstick, Executive Director of the Association of the German meat industry speaks. Such conditions were the exception, she says the DW. “The images are not dramatic, and absolutely not to be tolerated, of course.” Unfortunately, there are always those exceptions. “This is then accepted as a rule, but this is not true in any way. And we also try, for something to proceed.”
The animal Farm
Harstick says that the meat industry have done in the last years very much, in order to improve animal welfare. So you have extended about the video surveillance in stables and slaughterhouses, and with the “Initiative animal welfare” believe that a part of the farmers, the animals according to Standards that are over and above the statutory requirements. The animals have a little more space or to get hay, and not just force feed.
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However, activists such as stem Berger of “Animal Rights Watch,” it’s not about better conditions. They are calling for the end of livestock farming and the right to life for each animal. “That would be the Minimum, but the right to physical integrity and right to liberty – as far as this is for a home-bred animal at all possible,” says Stammberger. Freedom, therefore, for the 26 million pigs, and 12 million head of cattle in the German stables.
Meat is not a vegetable
Previously, you would have thought meat was healthy and the animals are stupid and irritable. But that had changed, so the animal rights activists. “We simply do not have new knowledge and original, the old attitude is not at all justified – not scientifically, and ethically, anyway. Therefore, nothing else than from this System completely to get out is for us actually.”
Only about 400 of the members of the master Bergers is part of the club. However, the number of Germans, who forgo animal products, is increasing steadily. You ought to be around one Million people. In the super-market shelves today, we see much more plant-based meat substitute than three years ago. No wonder, the sales of vegan and vegetarian foods, has doubled since then. And in German dining tables in German Restaurants and canteens, is the question of whether and how much meat it is, hotly debated.
A little less chips
There is no reason for concern for meat producers, says Association representative Harstick. “In the case of pork, the consumption goes back a bit,” says Hartsick. The sun but rather to the increasing number of Muslims in Germany. For more chicken will be eaten. “It’s not like that now the mass of the German population is transitioning to veganism. In any case. The expected no man.” And animal rights activists such as stem Berger and his comrades-in-arms? “These people have formed their opinions and are not accessible to arguments,” says Harstick.
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Cheap meat versus animal welfare
There are few debates that are as emotional as those around animal welfare and meat consumption. “From both sides”, says activist the root Berger. “A lot of people have the feeling that you want to be taken away.”
The sausage should be cheap
Since 2002, the German basic law called the animal protection as a state objective. In the animal protection act, in turn, the handling of animals is regulated. It States, for example, that animals may not be used without “reasonable cause” to be killed. The laws but are often vague about when it comes to “welfare”. The is only defined by the regulations of the Ministry of agriculture in more detail. Highly controversial, however, is whether it is really appropriate to the species if, for example, sows in crates life, which are barely larger than themselves.
German speciality: cheap sausages on an expensive Grill
In surveys, a large majority of Germans is in favour for better living conditions, more controls, and more animal welfare. For this, you would also grab at the supermarket checkout deeper into the bag, they say. Ulrich Enneking, a Professor of Agricultural Marketing at the University of Osnabrück, the in a survey and a field experiment. Result: three-quarters of the customers opted for Sausage, minute steaks and stew in the cheap version. Organic meat and meat with an “animal welfare Label” was the most expensive.
“Because we found a difference between the real purchase and the hypothetical purchase,” says Enneking of the DW. “It is generally known that the Germans are very price sensitive,” says the researcher. “German consumers are not, to the extent of willing to buy higher-quality products or go in, for example, markets such as the French.”
“The Shop is buzzing”
Even Germany, with 60 kilograms of meat per Person per year to the Nations with the highest consumption in the world. Enneking thinks, however, that the Trend of vegan diet in this country stronger. Also animal rights activist Stammberger believes that in the future more and more people are on animal products without. This must, however, go much faster, he says.
And the operation in the state of Brandenburg, which had to stop because of the Videos of the “Animal Rights Watch,” the battles? He will not do so in the future, quoted by the regional newspaper “Märkische Allgemeine” the owner. His cattle are now taken to the slaughter, then in Fehrbellin disassembled and in the shop, which sells. “The Shop is buzzing,” he says.
