Under the motto “We’re tired” have already gone for the fifth time in Berlin tens of thousands of people for a change in agricultural policy on the road.
According to the organizers, around 50,000 people came to the rally until Saturday afternoon. They were protesting against factory farming, genetic engineering and the proposed free trade agreement between the US and EU TTIP. The police gave the number of participants to 25,000.
The demonstration took place parallel to the Agricultural Fair Green Week in Berlin. The rally drew from Potsdamer Platz in front of the Federal Chancellery and went smoothly, police said. Had called an alliance of more than 120 organizations from agriculture, environmental, animal and consumer protection, and development organizations.
Led was the protest, which grew larger during the afternoon, more than 90 tractors. Front of the Chancellery speakers of the various organizations called then, inter alia, a rejection of the trade agreement between the EU and TTIP the US, legal protection of agriculture and food industry against genetic engineering as well as an expansion stop for mega animal stalls. The Alliance “We’re tired” had called in the past four years, parallel to the Green Week to large demonstrations.
Alliance spokesman Jochen Fritz turned especially against TTIP. The proposed agreement “is one-sided global corporations and many family farms livelihoods escape here and around the world,” he said. At the same time threatened consumer standards to be lowered.
About the planned free trade agreement between the EU and the USA will be negotiated in July-2013. Proponents hope of a free trade area a huge boost to the economy on both sides of the Atlantic by tariffs and other trade barriers are removed. But critics in Europe fear an erosion of standards for consumer protection and food safety.
Protest in Berlin was also against factory farms and slaughterhouses giant. The Chairman of the Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), Hubert Weiger, said at the end of the demonstration, based on about 250 citizens’ initiatives planned more than 100 giant stables would not be built. He urged the government to do more to promote food production in rural and medium-sized businesses.
At the exhibition center of Green Week unfurled activists at an entrance building a hundred-square-foot banner reading “meat is always murder”. The Alliance “unmask Green Week” wanted to claims to make a stand against the “exploitation of humans, animals and the environment”
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