Agricultural policy : On the Land and in the barn, the injustice prevails

The Zoological research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn today is not any more than a Central place of the younger German history at the moment. Before a good 70 years, gathered under the chairmanship of Konrad Adenauer in the atrium of the William inistischen building of the Parliamentary Council in order to develop in the following months, our basic law – the on 8. May 1949 in Bonn, it was decided.

As Konrad Adenauer, was soon elected the first Federal Chancellor, was in the war largely undamaged Museum for a short time for the first Chancellery. As Adenauer's work room, the Ornithological library. The policy of the young Federal Republic of Germany began under the old bird characters. Today, the Zoological Museum holds at the same time, the Leibniz Institute for animal biodiversity, and Wolfgang Wägele, Director, is regarded as an international expert for centipedes and woodlice.

In the recently published magazine of the Leibniz Association, warns of the top researchers of the ecological consequences of insect and related bird mortality, which in turn has to do with industrial agriculture, the pesticides, the overexploitation of the natural resource base. In a Variation of the one-liners from the chaos theory could be the wings say: the beating of a butterfly, but the Absence of so many butterflies now in the spring, a Signal can be for the greater evil

The injustice prevails on the roads, Fields and in the stables

everything is connected with Everything. Nevertheless, it is not to go here to glyphosate, Monsanto, and not to the wonderful world Savior Greta Thunberg. Rather, speaking of the basic law, the rule of injustice.

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to order This reign had seen the Minister Seehofer before three years on the German borders. That was a mistake. Because there is an injustice, if any, in the country's interior. On roads and in Fields, in stables, for example. Transport and agriculture policy are traditionally in the hands of lobbyists than to act strong, reason, morality and law makes sense Association Federal Ministers and gutters. But we leave the barn-traffic (a speed limit: "against all sense") here aside.

we Take Julia Klöckner. If you would, we don't remember, a new year's eve Royal fireworks ban only against every human mind, no matter if it costs a few hands or eyes. It was as if you wanted to ban soon "the Laugh". Prompt the cheerful Rheinland-Pfalz received during the recent carnival the "order against the animal Seriously."

testicles cut off and have to squeak

If there is even the piglets pigs without anesthesia? Of course, this is not a late ash Wednesday preaching of repentance. I think the Minister of agriculture in talk shows are often quite sympathetic, and I'm quite a meat eater and wine drinker. But what are we to make of a politician, as one of their first acts since five (!) Years prepared to castrate the beginning of 2019, the planned prohibition of male piglets without anaesthetic, for a further two years suspended?

In Germany are cut off until then, approximately forty million poor little pigs without any anesthesia, the testes. What have suffered these piglets, no longer looks at you then the more Mature pig meat. However, the trade has introduced this week a private "animal welfare label", with four categories for the "attitude-form". However, from Form 1 to 3 is always (by mass)in livestock farming, alone, the number of 4 'Premium' promises that animals have had with (not further defined) spout a piece of heaven and earth.

are cruel to Animals the agricultural industry operates as a "conventional" agriculture

However, the new Label is only found on pre-packaged meat, not at the fresh food counter. Julia Klöckner promises, however, for the near future, a private national Label with refined criteria. But only for pork. Absurd, when you think about the truly bestial Mass caging of chickens. After brainwashing sounds, that this legislative often torture animals and from all of the climate-damaging farming and agriculture industry as "conventional" agriculture operates. As a Bio, "so natural" on the Land and in the barn today, actually, Artificial, Modern.

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