Meat price dumping is a hotly debated topic.
Corona outbreaks at slaughterhouses attracted additional attention.
Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg now want to act.
Stuttgart / Munich - There has long been a dispute about price dumping for meat - the topic even briefly dominated the headlines around the corona outbreaks at slaughterhouses.
Now Bavaria and the neighboring state of Baden-Württemberg are doing something together.
Ministers of the governments of Markus Söder * (CSU) and Winfried Kretschmann * (Greens) made clear demands on the federal government on Friday.
The Baden-Württemberg Agriculture Minister Peter Hauk (CDU) calls for an end to price dumping.
It has to be about quality, not price, said the CDU politician on Friday in Stuttgart after a video conference with his Bavarian colleague Michaela Kaniber (CSU) and representatives of the food retail sector on the situation of the pig market.
He again called on the federal government to ban advertising with dumping prices in connection with meat and meat products.
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Kaniber said that in future the focus should be on quality rather than price.
In the past, farmers protested against long-term bargains, especially when it came to meat, and large retail chains approached the producers.
Kaniber pointed out that Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have their own quality seals.
They have reached the consumer in Bavaria.
Hauk said that the further development of these programs is of great importance in order to make the southern German pig sector more sustainable and therefore more competitive.
Hauk promoted a Baden-Württemberg Federal Council initiative.
This is to create the basis for the industry to be able to set minimum prices for meat on its own.
“Politicians cannot set any guidelines here, nor is that our job.
But we have to create framework conditions so that the industry can become active. ”In Baden-Württemberg, voting will take place in a good two weeks *.
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