Vegan Power: Tariff saves numerous wild animals from a painful death
Conventional electricity generation from nuclear, coal, or gas is not sustainable: radioactive waste from nuclear energy and the climate-damaging emissions from the extraction and use of fossil fuels harm nature and wildlife. Not so with Vegan Power.
Conventional electricity generation from nuclear, coal, or gas is not sustainable: radioactive waste from nuclear energy and the climate-damaging emissions from the extraction and use of fossil fuels harm nature and wildlife. Not so with Vegan Power.
More and more people are choosing to live vegan – that is, to avoid animal products. This applies not only to diet, but also to other areas of life, such as fashion and household and hygiene products. The reasons for a vegan lifestyle are manifold. In addition to ethical considerations and animal rights, aspects such as environmental protection and health also play an important role.
Electricity generation often linked to animal suffering
Electricity generation is frequently associated with animal suffering: open-cast lignite mining continues to destroy habitats, turbines in hydroelectric plants often become death traps for fish, and the rotors of wind turbines can be life-threatening for bats and birds. Humans are encroaching ever further into the habitat of wild animals – it is therefore our responsibility to enable a coexistence with wildlife free from animal suffering.
Energy from biomass is often generated using slurry from industrial livestock farming. But even ecological electricity generation unfortunately frequently means death or serious injury for wild animals, as they are disturbed in their natural habitat and energy installations can become a threat to their lives. That is why GreenStone Energy, with veganstrom.com on solar energy from photovoltaic systems, geothermal energy, and tidal power plants. In addition, the facilities operate 100 percent emission-free and therefore release no climate-damaging greenhouse gases or pollutants. Vegan Strom customers also support PETA's commitment to the life and protection of wildlife with 50 cents per month.
Vegan Strom: Tariff for Animal-Friendly Energy
«We want to educate consumers that green electricity is not automatically animal-friendly and that animals are also killed by hydropower and wind turbines», says Dr. Erik Oldekop, Managing Director of GreenStone Energy GmbH. «That is why we have developed Vegan Strom — a tariff for all people who care about animals. We source the energy for it exclusively from suppliers who work in a vegan and ecological manner and rely on solar energy, geothermal energy, and ocean tides.»
With Vegan Strom, there is now a tariff for private households and businesses that goes beyond green electricity and places animal welfare at the centre.
More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. 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.
