Farmers in Bavaria are concerned about the implementation of animal welfare requirements.
Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU) appeased.
Mammendorf
- Bavaria's Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU) promised the farmers her full support during a visit to Mammendorf.
During a discussion, the farmers had expressed concerns about the implementation of the requirements in terms of animal welfare
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At the invitation of the Bundestag member Katrin Staffler (CSU) Kaniber came to the Färberhof of the Josef Mayer family. "We are not only on the Bavarian farms during the election campaign," said Kaniber. For years she has taken care of the problems that are present in agriculture. Unfortunately, however, the world is not always "as we want it to be," said Kaniber. She alluded to the majority structure in the Federal Council, which now has eleven green environment ministers and eight green agriculture ministers, "who by no means support what a CSU in Bavaria would like". Kaniber continues: "This country wouldn't look like it does if we didn't have the peasantry."
Animal welfare took up a large part of the discussion.
Livestock husbandry should be clearly aligned with this.
Anything else would no longer be accepted by society.
There should be animal welfare premiums and investment grants for a barn conversion.
New animal welfare requirements: Conventional farmers worry
A Dachau farmer who runs a pig fattening business, however, criticized the long time it took for the grant to be granted.
It would take at least three years for a stable conversion to be planned and approved.
That is totally unrealistic, because who knows what will happen again in three or five years.
Engelbert Jais, head butcher master of the Bruck guild and managing director of the Bruck slaughterhouse, is afraid that the livestock farms will become so few that the small butchers in the district will no longer be able to buy the animals in the region.
In addition, the requirements that small businesses can no longer meet would become more and more stringent.
Animal welfare requirements in Bavaria: Agriculture Minister Kaniber (CSU) takes away farmers' fear
Farmer Josef Wörle criticized the lack of planning security for animal welfare requirements. He went along with every idea. But after two years the program was usually standard. “Agriculture has had enough,” he said. "We all know that livestock farming is no longer wanted." Animal husbandry is heavily criticized, said Dachau farmer Josef Riedlberger. "If we lose animal husbandry, we lose added value." That is a major dilemma that politicians have to solve. Another farmer from Dachau wanted clarification about the combination of tethering and grazing. There is a great deal of uncertainty about what Bavaria stands for. The combination posture will be retained, Kaniber clarified,after she had called for a speedy exit from year-round tethering in her government statement.
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