Agriculture: Yard rider demands radical change of the agribusiness

Hamburg - the Greens set after the exit from the atomic energy on a radical change of the agriculture. “The agrarian turn has ecologically a meaning like the energy turn”, said party head Anton Hofreiter on Saturday on the Green Party Congress in Hamburg. A third of the output climaticharmful gases world-wide goes on the account of the agribusiness. Besides the industry is responsible for the expulsion of small farmers for instance in South America, if the industry implements the cultivation enormous soy field with partly criminal methods.

The Greens concretely demand a prohibition of genetically modified plants as well as the drastic restriction of the use of antibiotics with the animal mast and the pesticides on the fields. Besides the animal welfare is to be improved approximately by a prohibition of the bill shortening with poultry or the amputation by tails with pigs. In addition also the challenge belongs to the factory farming.

So far attempts of the agriculture are to establish species-appropriate drawn up chickens in the mass-market failed because of the high selling price. On the other hand in certain foodstuffs sectors - for instance with fruit, vegetable and milk - eco-products beside conventionally produced food were established with discounters and grocery chains.