Again, the Federal Council has moved to the cages, the rules for wider Sows. Now animal rights activists demand to enforce the prohibition of close frames.
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BERLIN taz | The German animal protection Association does not want a Reform of the rules for sows-cages to wait. "Our patience is at an end. We are now calling for the immediate enforcement of existing Law,“ said Association President Thomas Schröder.
At a Meeting on Tuesday had agreed that the Federal government and the Länder on the Reform of the rules for sows-cages, the adoption of the regulations in the Federal Council was again postponed. In accordance with the applicable regulation, the most are, "box stalls" mentioned cages is currently illegal, because they are so tight that in them, the pigs can't stretch your legs in the Lie.
Since the Amtsveterinäre had left the stables for 30 years, unopposed, would have to the Federation and the Länder pay the farmers compensation, and demanded that Schröder. "The peasant billion as support to the implementation of the fertilisers regulation was included in the budget Yes no Problem. In the same order of magnitude of money for a pet-friendly retrofitting of the stables should be in the here and now is also feasible“, so the animal rights activists.
the Federal government and the Länder have reached on Tuesday, no agreement, reported in the journal top agrar. Next week, the Federal Council will cases, therefore, no decision on the livestock regulation. Of the previously targeted date at 13. March is on the 15th. May have been moved, wrote to the magazine appealing to groups of Participants. There are still further questions, it said. In mid-February, the Federal Council had postponed the vote on the livestock regulation due to differences in particular for the Sows in the short term.
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