Katrin Göring-Eckardt: “The large slaughterhouses must be closed”

NAfter the corona outbreaks in slaughterhouses, the Greens have called for a complete change in meat production in Germany. “The big slaughterhouses have to be closed. We have to decentralize that, ”said Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt on Sunday evening on the Internet show“ Bild Live ”. It is now about a different policy and … Read more

Julia Klöckner announces measures after meat summit – union speaks of “show”

Updated June 26, 2020, 6:01 p.m. Federal Minister Julia Klöckner does not want to accept the situation in German slaughterhouses any more than her cabinet colleague Hubertus Heil. After the meat summit with representatives from the meat industry, it promises fundamental changes. You can find more news topics here The meat industry should be cleaned … Read more

Demonstration ‘Close Vion’ at slaughterhouse in Boxtel, Farmers Defense Force is not showing

1/6 Photo: Sander van Gils / SQ Vision Media Productions – Action group ‘Close Vion’ demonstrated on Friday afternoon at the slaughterhouse in Boxtel. Some fifty activists stood at Vion’s premises shouting slogans like “Close Vion!” They want the company to be temporarily locked down because of the corona infections. Corona infections were previously diagnosed … Read more

Agriculture. Slaughterhouses Slow Down, America Mass Euthanasia

Over ten million chicks have been euthanized in the past two months United States. As many pigs should experience the same fate. Due to Covid-19 employee cases, Uncle Sam’s slaughterhouses have been idling for two months. A study by Purdue University in Indiana estimates that slaughtering and processing the hog industry works at 40% of … Read more

Are slaughterhouses conducive to the spread of coronavirus?

At least two slaughterhouses are among the 25 outbreaks identified since the start of the deconfinement, May 11, 2020. 69 cases were detected in Côtes-d’Armor, 54 in Loiret. The Vendée, too, was affected. Screenings continue. Similar situations are worrying abroad. More than 5,000 workers in a hundred abattoirs are contaminated in the United States, where … Read more

Coronavirus. The concern of workers in slaughterhouses where cases are increasing

The Regional Health Agency (ARS) Brittany announced on Sunday May 17, 2020 that the number of Covid positive people in the Kermené slaughterhouse in Côtes-d’Armor, a subsidiary of the Leclerc group, has now reached 69 cases. These people are isolated at home and followed up. After a first patient, detected on Wednesday, then five other … Read more

Germany. Increase in contamination in slaughterhouses

More than 90 employees of a slaughterhouse in the northwest ofGermany have tested positive at coronavirus, the latest example in this sector that Berlin is preparing to regulate more strictly. This new focus of infection concerns 92 employees of a cutting plant meat in Dissen, in the state of Lower Saxony, was learned on Monday … Read more