Of the farmers union demands clarity via a secured financing for the planned one modification to more animal welfare in the places.
“If you are serious about the further development of more animal welfare-friendly husbandry, then you have to take this step,” said the farmer’s president Joachim Rukwied the German Press Agency. “It needs state co-financing and investment support. But it also needs an additional price at the shop counter. We have to do both.” the financing must now be initiated, said Rukwied. “The coalition has a duty there.”
SPD, Greens and FDP have been discussing one for weeks financing to ensure that farmers are not left with the sole burden of barn conversions and additional work. According to recommendations, one is under discussion expert commission a higher VAT rate or an “animal welfare tax” on animal products. A surcharge of 40 cents per kilogram would be conceivable meat. Die FDP however, recently made it clear that it opposes consumer price premiums in the face of high inflation.
State aid “essential”
Rukwied said: “If we livestock farming in Deutschland as required by society with more animal welfare want to get, then one financing essential on the part of the public sector. Otherwise he can modification not succeed and the livestock farming would migrate abroad.” The one billion euros now planned in the federal budget are a start. “In total, that’s not enough.”
The financing system is part of a planned mandatory animal husbandry labeling agreed in the coalition agreement. Minister of Agriculture Cem Ozdemir (Greens) want to present key points for this Tuesday. the Labelling should be up and running this year. You should start with pork first.
Özdemir promotes financial security for farmers. “I can’t tell the farmers that they should pay for a more species-appropriate livestock farming and more climate protection from one day to the next through the market,” he told the “Welt am Sonntag”. This would accelerate the death of farms, and nobody could want that meat out Deutschland are.”
Actually, everyone agrees that investments in a future-proof system are required livestock farming need – and that’s what he’s fighting for, said Özdemir. The farmers made money planning security. In the financing the proposals are on the table – and he has key players on his side. “I’m confident because everyone knows what’s at stake,” he said.
Reliable framework
The agricultural policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Gero stool, warned that farmers need reliable framework conditions instead of “funding promises that can be cashed in after just a few years”. Farmers think out loud stool not in years but in generations. “Luring you into new financial ventures with uncertain promises is dubious and delivers Agriculture even more political influence and turning away from science and research. We won’t go down that path.”
Rukwied said: “It is also important that existing successful systems such as the Initiative animal welfare with integrated and at the state attitude marking builds on what you already have.” About the of Agriculturemeat industry and trade borne Initiative Participating farmers receive a surcharge for additional animal welfare requirements. The large supermarket chains already have a uniform 2019 Labelling for meat and Wurst with the imprint “Haltungform”, which has four levels.
Pig farming in “biggest
Crisis for decades”
Rukwied told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” that politicians had to show perspectives to the suffering pig farms in particular, which were “in the greatest Crisis for decades”. Falling pig prices are offset by rising expenditure for feed and energy. “If we stop pig farming in Deutschland If you want to keep and improve, the Federal Government must get this started this year. Every month that is lost means numerous closed styes again.”
Of the farmers union at the same time insists on an indication of origin. If a decision at EU level is expected by the end of the year, one can wait and see. “But if that’s not the case, we’ll have to introduce an identification of husbandry and origin nationally,” Rukwied told the dpa. Consumers should be able to identify where products come from. “That’s part of transparency. How else are you supposed to be able to make a targeted decision for local regional goods?”
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