On World Milk Day
In agricultural livestock farming, cows are repeatedly subjected to forced artificial insemination in order to keep milk production consistently high. Just like human mothers, they are pregnant for nine months and only produce milk after giving birth. Mother cows and their calves share a close bond that lasts a lifetime. They care tenderly for their young. In agricultural livestock farming, however, this natural need is denied to them. Newborns are torn from their mothers shortly after birth — often both cry out for each other for days on end.
Massive Suffering in Milk Production
Around four million dairy cows are kept in Germany’s barns. Milk yields have been pushed to up to 50 litres per day. Approximately 40% of dairy cows are already exhausted and sent to slaughter by the age of four to five years.
Milk: A Climate Killer
Methane from milk production is around 28 times more harmful to the climate than CO₂. The Federal Association People for Animal Rights calls for an end to animal-based milk production. More on the topics of vegan nutrition, climate change and factory farming.
| 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: 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.
