A day to question the work of farming families
Animal milk is increasingly falling out of fashion among Swiss consumers. Milk has long since lost its innocent image and must now face questions about animal welfare and the environment.
Swiss milk: no reason to celebrate
Today's Swiss milk is neither healthy, nor does it deserve a national holiday. Since 2017, demand for animal-suffering-free milk alternatives has been steadily increasing.
No fun for young and old
Cows today produce twice as much milk as they did 50 years ago and end up in the slaughterhouse far too soon. Cows could live to be 20 years old, yet on average they are disposed of at the age of seven. Swiss farmers are the largest fine particulate matter offenders, responsible for 37% of all fine particulate matter emissions (Source: FOEN). More on the topic of factory farming, animal rights and climate change.
| You can help all animals and our planet with compassion. Choose empathy on your plate and in your glass. Go vegan. |
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
