When does you watch? Animal rights activists demand the end of the full column floors!

When does you watch? Animal rights activists demand the end of the full column floors!

An upcoming campaign on Ballhausplatz in Vienna on March 12, 2025, around animal welfare, causes a stir. According to the APA-OTS becomes an animal rights activist, disguised with a mask by Agriculture Minister Norbert Tettschnig, to sleep in a bed to sleep on the suffering of the pigs to draw attention to the full column floor. Injured pigs are depicted in photos while an alarm clock rings - but there is homicide in bed. Public outrage is great: 92 % of the population demand that the use of strawin litter for pig farming is made mandatory. With the judgment of the Constitutional Court, which cancel the transition periods for the full column floor from June 1, 2025, new minimum standards for pig farming are more in demand.

revisions of the transition periods necessary

The Constitutional Court has decided that the previously planned abolition of full column floors in pig farming is too long until 2040. Minister of Agriculture Totschnig said 2 concerns about the length of the transition periods in the ZIB. According to Meinverkirk the government must change the law in order to meet the requirements of the court. Comfortable explained that the farmers need clear framework conditions in order to remain competitive in pig farming. The minister emphasized that too fast procedure could endanger domestic production, which could potentially get foreign meat onto the market that does not correspond to the same standards.

The discussion is the balance between the necessary animal welfare and the economic security of the companies. The Minister of Agriculture sees it as important that the Austrian standards in animal welfare are not only good, but can also survive in international competition. It remains to be seen whether and how quickly the government is reacting to the claims and the judgment of the Constitutional Court.