Document type : news item from the Euractiv website
Authors (English version): Julia Dahm translated by Stina Nölken
Preview: In his first government statement to the German Federal Parliament on Friday (January 14), Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir announced his intentions to introduce mandatory husbandry labelling by the end of the year.
"Stables are not storage areas", Özdemir said in his presentation, adding that low producer prices, especially in the market for pork, are a "disgrace". However, agriculture must be supported financially in the transition toward greater animal welfare, he emphasised.
To ensure that the switch to better husbandry conditions becomes profitable for farms, Özdemir wants to draw on the proposals of the so-called Borchert Commission, among others.
