Bauernverband sees success for animal husbandry in Germany
Animal Welfare - Livestock Conservation Ordinance of the Federal Council will advance animal welfare
Today's decision of the Federal Council on Animal Welfare Regulation with the Pigs and Poultry Conservation Ordinance serves to further develop effective animal welfare in Germany and to secure jobs in domestic livestock farming in tough global competition, explains the German Farmers Association (DBV). Animal welfare should not be measured twice. Progress in Germany should not lead to relocation of production to foreign competitors, who worked with much poorer animal welfare standards and then exported these products to Germany. That is why the Federal Council has today taken a decision in favor of animals and animal welfare; but it also takes into account the competitive situation of domestic pet owners, emphasizes the DBV. These are the principles of sustainability.With the Federal Council decision, the keeping of farm animals becomes more animal-friendly on the basis of scientific studies. Under no circumstances will the ban on keeping laying hens in cages be postponed to Saint Never's Day, as Federal Minister Renate Künast fears. Together with the Central Association of German Poultry Farmers, the DBV states that the Federal Council resolution takes account of the further development of husbandry systems such as small group husbandry through a test procedure. The pig husbandry ordinance would create the missing nationwide animal welfare regulations and replace the animal welfare decrees of some federal states. The new regulations were based on the EU requirements to be implemented, but in some cases went beyond a 1: 1 implementation. Even if the DBV has fundamental concerns when European law is not implemented identically in German law, it supports the decision of the Bundesrat. Because the German pig farmers could keep their pigs under largely equal competitive conditions in the EU in the future.