Animal welfare and food: Greens call for minimum price of meat – Tagesspiegel

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A minimum price of meat would ultimately only cause everyone to tap more money to the detriment of the consumer – it is however, very doubtful that the arrive extra money in animals. would really help sharper legal provisions for livestock and their consistent monitoring.

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minimum prices for meat in the supermarket of the agricultural expert of the Greens called for in the Bundestag – but encounters so at the peak fraction of rejection. “We need minimum prices and to price dumping ban,” said agronomist Friedrich Ostendorff the “Saarbrücker Zeitung” (Tuesday). “For 2.99 euros no one can produce a chop profitably, in which it is the animal also went well.”

Group chairman Anton Hofreiter held in the “Passauer Neue Presse” against: “I do not think government-imposed minimum prices for the right path.” While a debate on dumping prices was correct, given the crisis in which infected the farmers. But in this case if it were to debate contribution of individual members.

He himself would make market structures fairer and distribute the funding new, Hofreiter said. Agriculture to make animal-friendly is a declared aim of the Greens. On Saturday Hofreiter and Ostendorff accept a trip organized by the Group conference on fair livestock in Hannover part.

The German farmers complain that arrives from the trading prices for meat and sausages too little from the producers. According to the German Farmers’ Association gets a farmhouse about 200 grams Salami only 26 cents, for a sausage in bun only 20 cents. (AP)