More St. Martin’s Geese were imported to Austria last year: according to Four Paws, this amounted to 1,774 tonnes – compared to 1,370 in 2022. Imports from Hungary in particular increased. Filling and live plucking are practiced there.
Geese from Hungary or Poland are considerably cheaper than Austrian. “Unfortunately, with this greed-is-cool mentality, the animals are the big losers – next to the consumers who eat meat from tortured animals,” says campaign leader Veronika Weissenböck.
The fact that the catering industry does not even have to indicate where the geese come from and how they are kept is more than unfair to consumers.
“Be annoying and ask carefully”
In general, it is important for Vier Pfoten: if you really want to eat Martinigansl, you should definitely choose the Austrian meadow goose or the Austrian organic goose. The conditions here are much stricter than in the rest of the EU. When visiting a restaurant, we advise you to be ‘annoying’ and always ask carefully.
Stuffing and live plucking are cruel practices that have long been banned in Austria.
Source: Krone
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