My Throat Is Burning But My Throat Is'not Red

ÖDP has global connections through

Feb 24, 2011 on Europe's southern border, the Ecological-Democratic Party (ÖDP) point to connections between these seemingly disparate topics. While in Germany, the constant consumption of meat remains or even decreases, the production rose to 302000 tonnes. What we consume from a growing awareness of health and his contemporaries are no longer out lands, especially in the markets outside Europe, "said Uta Maria Jurgens, chairman of the Federal Working Group on agriculture, animal welfare and genetic engineering of ÖDP. Through export subsidies to the ridiculous price to have ruined German agricultural products to agriculture in developing countries and cause misery and hunger in the population. In particular, as regards the flesh, this represents a exploitation circuit: "For the production of feed for livestock farming in Germany and other European countries is valuable rain forest destruction and prevent the growing of food for their own population," says Juergens, "particularly disturbing is that often force the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the affected countries to enter the animal feed production for the developed countries and less on the diet of their own people. " Who in the face wonder about the rising numbers of hungry and refugees, the knock out of sheer distress at the gates of our affluent parties, must begin first and foremost on its own plate and ballot changes. The ÖDP politician also calls for the reorientation of agricultural policy in the EU and Germany: "Neither the misery of our fellow human beings in developing countries still that of our fellow creatures, the so-called farm animals by the meat production are natural. It is the agricultural policy that creates this suffering, especially with subsidies used incorrectly. Instead of promoting mass and capital, working methods must be created, with gentle animals and world in general and fair by international Trading partners around ". Finally
Jürgens wants more attention on the German consumer, "We too easily forget that behind 8 million tons of meat over a billion individual animal and each of the 24 000 lives are hungry dead who die every day, has a face. And we do not realize that it is our everyday actions, which continues to foment this suffering - or diminishes. A diet with a reduced proportion of animal products on the basis of local organic foods is the key to a mitweltfreundlichen future. " Ecological-Democratic Party (ÖDP) Federal Press Office Erich-Weinert-Str. 134 10409 Berlin Tel 030/49854050
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