CDU on agriculture

The CDU wants to strengthen the competitiveness of Bremen's agriculture with funding and support conventional and organic farms alike. Rules that harm farms are to be reviewed together with farmers and withdrawn where appropriate.

There are fewer and fewer farms in Bremen. The CDU wants to help farms with funding. It wants to check rules that harm farmers. Students should visit farms and learn there.

Requirements in the landscape program and the land-use plan are to be reviewed. Together with farmers, the CDU wants to gain land for renewable energy and accompany the upcoming changes in the sector. Farms are to be used more as places of learning outside school. Selling home-produced goods is to become easier; the CDU wants to push at federal level for a change to the Gaststättengesetz (restaurant licensing law). The role of horse farms for leisure and sports is to be highlighted.

The CDU wants less food to be thrown away, especially in public institutions. It also wants to promote healthy, informed eating and strengthen the food industry. The party rejects any state-mandated fully plant-based diet.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash. This applies most of all to public offices and institutions. People should be able to eat healthy food. But the state should not force anyone to eat only plants.

According to the platform, large amounts of still-edible products should not end up as waste. Agriculture, including livestock farming, should contribute to climate protection, even though the platform says the food sector can never become entirely emission-free. The CDU relies on informed eating habits rather than rules. It also wants to strengthen the food industry.