Farm animals from organic to conventional suffer from diseases
Millions of farm animals suffer massively from diseases, injuries and pain.
Organic or conventional: animals suffer
Whether the animals are kept on an organic farm or in a conventional operation makes hardly any difference.
This sobering finding is the result of a systematic evaluation of veterinary studies from Germany and Switzerland by the consumer organisation Foodwatch together with veterinarians.
The insidious part: consumers cannot tell at the supermarket or butcher's shop from the meat whether the animal was healthy or sick before slaughter.
No legal requirements for animal health
The consumer organisation called on Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir to take measures to improve animal health. To date, there are no legal requirements whatsoever for animal keepers to keep their animals healthy, neither in organic nor in conventional farming. “Cem Özdemir’s label changes nothing about the suffering of millions in German stalls,” criticised Annemarie Botzki.
Slaughterhouse findings show, for example, that nearly 40 percent of all pigs in conventional farming have pathological findings; in organic farming, according to one study, the figure is barely lower at 35 percent. Every second dairy cow in an organic barn was found to have udder inflammation. In laying hen farming, up to 97 percent of all hens exhibit bone fractures. More on the topics of animal rights and animal welfare issues.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: The scientific evidence is presented in the overview Studies on the Effects of Recreational Hunting.
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.
