Cattle suffer under animal cruelty
Calves should be housed in small groups during the first weeks of life. Housing in individual pens must be avoided.
Calves separated immediately after birth
Most calves from dairy cows are separated from their mothers immediately after birth. Scientific evidence shows that calves with limited contact with their mother frequently suffer from isolation stress. The average mortality rate of calves in dairy farms is 10% or more.
EFSA recommends group housing
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recommends: Young animals should be kept with their mother for at least one day and housed in small groups during the first weeks of life. Individual pens should be avoided entirely. More on the topic of animal welfare issues, animal rights and factory farming.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: 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.
