The Swiss Greens Want Fundamental Rights for Animals
At the delegates' assembly on 28 January 2023, the Swiss Greens adopted a new electoral programme.
Fundamental Rights for Animals in the Agenda 2023–2027
In the next legislative term, the Swiss Green Party wishes to Switzerland anchor, among other things, fundamental rights for animals. They are to become legal persons and have an enforceable right to dignity, life, and physical and mental integrity, as stated in the Agenda 2023–2027.
Recreational hunters, the self-proclaimed predators, live a culture of senseless violence — a court in Bellinzona recently affirmed this.
Ethical, non-violent and responsible
It is not only the view of animal rights advocates that animals have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Every child knows this intuitively. The conscious human being must act: ethically, non-violently and responsibly. More on the topic of animal rights and hunting legislation.
| 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.
