“Image” against Greens: newspaper fights for cheap German schnitzel

• fromKatja Thorwarth

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Green leader Robert Habeck calls for a minimum price for animal products and thus triggers a fierce debate. When it comes to meat, the end of fun in Germany.

Germany – When it comes to the meat of the Germans, understand that Central organ the schnitzel eater is no fun: “Greens want to make our meat more expensive, ”says the headline in large letters on page 1 of the “Picture”-Newspaper. What happened?

Greens boss Robert Habeck had asked for a minimum price for animal products that retailers should not fall below. Furthermore, health and safety needs to be improved by banning contracts for work and expanding state control.

Habeck reacts to corona cases in slaughterhouses

The current push is likely to be in the most recent Corona cases justified, which have increasingly occurred in slaughterhouses. Hygiene and health standards are often said to have not been met in the workers’ collective accommodation. That flesh can be sold at the current dumping prices, is causally related to the “dumping conditions” (Habeck).

But what are improved working conditions and what has long been demanded by the Greens Animal welfarewhen it comes to the price per kilo of meat? After all, every German eats an average of almost 60 kilos a year. This mountain of dead animals can be financed simply because the producers for one Kilos of pigs collect just 1.92 euros. This roughly corresponds to the retail price of two packs of gummy bears.

“Image” and the anxious question about the schnitzel price

“What has changed are the meat prices – they have increased!” Springer sheet in bold emphasis on page 2. After all, in 2011 it had the kilo from slaughterhouse still given for 1.46 euros. With the anxious question of whether a “minimum price for schnitzel” will soon be introduced, the reader should have been made completely voluptuous.