With the transition period for the ban on fully split floors in pig farming, animal suffering is also shortened. New scientific findings will help soon. The amendment to the law will be dealt with on Friday in the animal welfare committee and next week will also be dealt with in parliament.
After weeks of negotiations and before the deadline on 1 June, the federal government – as reported – corresponded to a change in the Animal Welfare ACT in the field of pig agriculture. As is known, the adjustment became necessary because the Constitutional Court was “too long” for the prohibition on the controversial full -split floors for the prohibition on the controversial full holes.
Without the quick agreement, the prohibition would have taken strength on 1 June – which would have brought around 24,000 local farmers to the Bredouille. They all have time to make their stables more animal -friendly -friendly by 1 June 2034 on 1 June 2034.
Because it is certain: as great as the economic benefit of the entire floors for the meat industry, the disadvantages for the pigs weigh. According to scientific studies, pigs have developed completely columns, for example, the lungs and bursa as colleague species that bring their short lives into straw.
Already in 1 June 2029 the first improvements in existing stables – including (some) more space per animal and a mandatory organic employment material. “This improves livestock farming sustainably and at the same time legal and planning protection for agriculture,” ÖVP minister of agriculture Norbert Tettschnig and State Secretary Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig agreed.
Science should help
Animal rights activists speak at least from an “important first step” to more animal welfare and fewer ages, the greens of a “flurest”, because the original goal of a new legal minimum standard is clearly missed in 2027. The responsible government duo sees it differently. “Scientific work on the subject was completed in 2026. In 2027 we let them come in when making new minimum standards,” said Königsberger-Ludwig.
Source: Krone
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