Abuses in slaughterhouses on 06/04/2010 frontal Abuses in slaughterhouses
What the consumer does not know of
Manfred Karremann and Christian Rohde
Never before have so many pigs slaughtered in Germany, as in the past year. 56 million recently announced by the Federal Statistical Office - an absolute record. Here in Germany there are fewer and fewer slaughterhouses. As a result, more animals are slaughtered in fewer and fewer farms, the legally prescribed animal protection often falls by the wayside. Hundreds of thousands of pigs and cattle have to suffer unnecessarily.
Although it is against the law fall, every year over half a million pigs living instead of dead in the scalding and Zerlegemaschinerie. Experts speak of the worst tortures that are here recklessly disregarded for reasons of cost in purchasing. For long, there are methods and control devices to ensure that an animal is dead even before it is brewed and processed. It also wants the law, but hardly a slaughterhouse, the elaborate control devices previously installed.
Professor Karsten Fehlhaber complained of the Federal Chamber of Veterinarians years of neglect.
German vets sound the alarm
Vets beat the Germans in autumn 2009 on their national convention alarm calling for urgent improvements in animal welfare in slaughterhouses. Prof. Karsten Fehlhaber complained of the Federal Chamber of Veterinarians years of neglect the slaughterers. On average, half a million pigs were not stunned before slaughter or have been bled enough not entirely appropriate. "This is something where we as veterinarians, of course, have to go to the barricades, and we must ensure that these conditions can be improved relatively quickly and eliminated." However, almost nothing is happening. The reason: money and time are key in the companies.
The pig anesthesia has been criticized by experts, more and more carbon dioxide gas is used. The gas is cheap, more animals may be stunned at the same time. For pigs, however, this means a struggle against the feeling of suffocation, often worst panic of death. In the stunning of cattle, take as many as four to seven percent failure stuns in purchasing. killed by bleeding
means: These animals are being killed without conscious when they depend on the assembly line, and by bleeding. Although the law mandating clear. But exclude expensive equipment, faulty anesthesia can Frontal21 has been able to find only in a company.
four to seven per cent failure in cattle stun
Significant words about these abuses will include Prof. Klaus Troeger - Head of the Federal Research Institute for Food and Drink - speaks of catastrophic animal cruelty. Although there was a corresponding provision in the animal welfare slaughter regulation, after the bleeding and anesthetic must be controlled. There was the most urgent action "We have for years been stressing, so far without success."
control does not work. The competent
Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner admits to demand Frontal21 that the conditions described "against the law violated." At the same time emphasizes the ministry, that new EU rules would resolve the problem. It is clear that individual EU countries are allowed until 2013 to implement more stringent regulations. Also apparently does the strict control of animal welfare guidelines the slaughterhouse is not today.
Even those who hardly thinks about animal suffering in the slaughterhouse, getting the latest when eating the problem perceived. The agony and bled badly wrong anesthetized animals suggest the negative impact on meat quality. Meat and sausage are less durable and often watery.
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