Open Letter in the Hefenhofen Case
When lawyers and judges demand that the public ignore these horrific images and the evidence presented from the summer of 2017, on the grounds that they may not be procedurally relevant, this amounts to a “state-mandated” brainwashing that the court is imposing on the population, on animal advocates, and on witnesses. In principle, this is precisely what undermines the Animal Protection Act. We must not allow this to happen.
Over 3’500 signatures
Within just a few hours, over 3’500 people signed an open letter by the Swiss Animal Protection STS. Time and again, convicted animal abusers slip through the cracks of the law. The Hefenhofen case is not an isolated incident.
Fatal Signal Effect
Scandalous non-verdicts send a fatal signal for animal welfare. Animal cruelty is not stopped this way — it is ultimately even encouraged. Animal protection and animal welfare must finally be taken seriously by all actors at all levels. More on the topic of Animal Rights and Switzerland.
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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.
