Tierschutzpartei: program for the 2025 federal election

The Tierschutzpartei wants an additional tax on companies' unusually high windfall profits. In addition, the top salary in a company should be no more than 20 times the lowest one. The reasoning is that profits should not come at the expense of employees and the environment.

Some companies make very high profits by chance. The party wants an extra tax on these profits. Bosses should earn at most 20 times what the lowest-paid worker in the company earns.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to cut subsidies for industry and agriculture when they are considered environmentally harmful, unethical, or not viable in the future. The money saved would go toward new jobs and retraining for the workers affected.

The state gives money to some companies and farms. The party wants to stop this when it harms the environment. The money saved should create new jobs. Affected workers should get training and support.

The Tierschutzpartei wants an economic system measured by quality of life and satisfaction rather than growth. It commits to a post-growth economy and the Economy for the Common Good. Animals and nature should receive rights of their own.

The economy should not have to keep growing. What matters should be how well people are doing. Buying less should not be a disadvantage. Animals and nature should have their own rights too.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to block free trade agreements such as TTIP, CETA, JEFTA and the one with Mercosur. Standards for workers, consumers, the environment and animals are not to be weakened. Such agreements should be put to referendums.

The Tierschutzpartei opposes big trade deals with other countries. It fears weaker rules for work, the environment and animals. The people should vote on such deals. The negotiations should be public.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to introduce a right to repairability for technical devices and subsidize sustainable products. Manufacturers are to take responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products and for human rights in the supply chain. Subsidies for sectors that harm the environment or cause animal suffering are to be phased out.

The Tierschutzpartei wants devices to be repairable. People should have a right to that. Eco-friendly products should become cheaper. Companies with poor, short-lived products should face disadvantages. Harmful sectors should get no more state money.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a minimum wage of at least 15 euros by 2026 and considers 18 euros appropriate. The wage tax should be lowered. Collective bargaining agreements should apply to all companies and sectors.

The party wants a higher minimum wage. It should be at least 15 euros by 2026. The party thinks 18 euros would be right. Workers should pay less wage tax. Union pay agreements should apply to all companies.

The Tierschutzpartei advocates a four-day week or a 35-hour week with no loss of pay. It also wants a right to work from home, more educational leave, and an entitlement to a sabbatical year. According to the platform, this would promote health, productivity, and work-life balance.

The party wants shorter working hours. Pay should stay the same. Everyone should have a right to work from home. There should be more days off for training. Everyone should be able to take up to one year off.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to tie fines and administrative fees to the income of the person concerned. It considers flat amounts socially unjust because they hit people with little money harder.

Fines and office fees should depend on income. People who earn little should pay less. The party thinks the same amount for everyone is unfair.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a pension insurance that everyone pays into, including lawmakers, civil servants, and the self-employed. Every person would receive a guaranteed pension that prevents old-age poverty. The pension level should be well above 50 percent in the medium term.

Everyone should pay into the same pension fund. This includes civil servants, politicians and self-employed people. Everyone should get enough pension in old age. Pensions should be higher than today. The party is critical of private pension plans.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to tax animal products at 19 percent or more instead of 7 percent. Plant-based foods and menstrual products would be taxed at no more than 7 percent and later not at all. It also calls for a one-time payment to offset inflation.

The party wants a higher tax on meat, milk and eggs. Plant-based food should be taxed less. Later this tax should end completely. Everyone should get a one-time payment because prices went up.

The Tierschutzpartei sees the debt brake as an obstacle to the shift toward more sustainability. Instead, it relies on a tax system that draws more on the wealthy and on investment in climate policy and other major challenges.

The debt brake limits new government debt. The party thinks it is too rigid. The state should spend more money on climate and the future. Rich people should pay more taxes for this.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to raise the inheritance tax, especially on very large estates, and to tax great wealth. The exit tax should stay and go up. According to the platform, the aim is a fairer distribution of income, wealth, and economic power.

People who inherit very much should pay more tax. Very large fortunes should be taxed too. Rich people should not simply move abroad to save taxes. So the exit tax should go up.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a levy on speculative trading in financial products. Financial markets should be regulated and supervised more strictly across borders. The financial sector should serve the common good as well as returns.

The party wants a tax on trading stocks and similar products. This should slow down fast bets on the stock market. The money should go to climate protection and social support. Financial markets should get stricter rules.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to fight tax flight, tax evasion and financial crime with considerably more staff. Wasting tax money by public bodies would be treated under criminal law like tax evasion.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to hire more tax investigators. They should uncover tax fraud better. Tax havens should be closed. These are countries with very low taxes. Officials who waste tax money should also be punished.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permanently tax what it sees as excessive profits of energy companies. The revenue is to fund the energy transition and ease the burden on consumers. At the same time, new jobs are to be created in renewable energy.

Electricity has been getting more expensive for years. The Tierschutzpartei says energy companies still earn a lot. They should pay a lasting extra tax on that. The party wants to use the money for clean energy and to help customers.

The Tierschutzpartei regards housing as a basic right and calls for a rent cap covering all of Germany. Rent gouging should be consistently prosecuted. In the long run, no one should spend more than a third of their net pay on rent.

The party wants a limit on rents in all of Germany. People who charge far too much rent should be punished. Rent should cost no more than one third of take-home pay.

The Tierschutzpartei wants the federal government to build housing itself and bring more existing housing into public ownership. New construction would have to include a fixed share of social housing. This is meant to slow the rise in rents.

The state should build homes itself. It should also take over more existing homes. A fixed share of new homes should be social housing. These are low-cost homes for people with little money.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a levy on vacant properties to prevent speculation. Empty residential and commercial space could be seized for temporary use. Vacant office buildings would be converted into housing.

Many homes stand empty. The party wants owners to pay a fee for that. The state should be able to take over empty rooms for a while. Empty offices should become homes.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit) that does not depend on parents' income. Children's rights should get their own article in the Basic Law. Daycare, schools, and childcare should be free in the long run, and youth welfare offices should get more staff.

Every child should get money from the state. The parents' income should not matter. Children's rights should be written into the constitution. Daycare should cost nothing in the future. Youth welfare offices should get more staff.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to anchor children's rights in Article 6 of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). The child's best interests should take priority in all measures, and children should be heard in government decisions.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to write children's rights into the constitution. The well-being of children should matter most. Children should have a say in decisions. There should also be more money for victims of abuse.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more youth recreation centers with more staff and guaranteed all-day care. Tutoring should be expanded and be cheap or free for children from low-income families.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more youth centers with more staff. Children should be able to get care all day. Tutoring should cost little or nothing for poor families.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a guaranteed apprenticeship place and a minimum training wage. Vocational training should no longer involve any fees. The aim is for young people to train without money worries.

Every young person should get a training place. Trainees should get a minimum pay. Training should cost nothing. Travel and overnight costs should also be paid.

The Tierschutzpartei wants media literacy and digital education to be a mandatory part of the curriculum at every school level. Students should learn early on to use digital technology responsibly and critically.

All schools should teach digital skills. Children should learn to use media well. Teachers should get training for this.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to pay care workers better and mandate fixed staffing ratios. The state would support training with scholarships. Relatives who care for sick people would receive a care allowance.

Care workers should earn more money. There should be fixed rules on how many staff must be there. The state should help pay for training. People who care for relatives should get money from the state.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permit active euthanasia, following the example of the Netherlands. Doctors would be allowed to carry it out under fixed conditions.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to allow active euthanasia. This means a doctor may help a severely suffering person die. There would be strict rules. The Netherlands is the model.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to substantially increase the number of therapy places and shorten waiting times. According to the platform, long waits often make illnesses worse.

People with mental illness often wait a long time for therapy. The Tierschutzpartei wants more therapy places. Waiting times should get shorter. Crisis hotlines and online help should also get more money.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to allow far fewer chemical additives in food and keep industrial sugar out of baby food in particular. It cites allergies, especially in children, and also promotes a plant-based diet.

The Tierschutzpartei wants fewer chemical additives in food. Baby food should contain no industrial sugar. Labels should say clearly what is in the food. Cafeterias and hospitals should offer more plant-based meals.

The Tierschutzpartei opposes private hospitals, clinics and practices and wants to move healthcare into public ownership. In its view, health should not have to turn a profit. Care should also become more local, accessible and digital.

The Tierschutzpartei does not want private hospitals and practices. The state should run healthcare. Health should not be a business. Rural areas should have enough doctors too. People should be able to book appointments online easily.

In drug policy, the Tierschutzpartei puts education and prevention first and wants to provide addiction counseling, therapy and supervised consumption rooms. Tobacco, nicotine and alcohol are to be taxed more heavily to protect the public and the health system.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to educate people about drugs. Addicted people should get counseling and therapy. There should be consumption rooms. These are safe places where addicted people can take drugs. Tobacco and alcohol should cost more.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to improve elder care, have nursing homes inspected without notice and promote housing models such as multigenerational homes. The aim is for older people to stay active in society and avoid loneliness.

The Tierschutzpartei wants better care for old people. Inspectors should check nursing homes without warning. Old and young people should be able to live together. Old people should be allowed to bring their pets to a home.

The Tierschutzpartei wants Germany to take in more refugees than currently required and to create safe escape routes. Additional reasons for fleeing, such as climate impacts and violence against women, should count as grounds for asylum. Frontex should be replaced by a sea rescue agency.

Germany should take in more refugees. There should be safe routes for people who flee. Climate damage and violence against women should also count as reasons for asylum. The state should rescue people in the Mediterranean. The border agency Frontex should be closed.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects deportations and wants to abolish the classification of countries as safe countries of origin. It also rejects the payment card for refugees. Offenders should be held accountable in Germany.

The party is against deportations. Deportation means the state sends people back to their country. People who commit crimes should be punished here. The list of safe countries of origin should end. Refugees should have cash and their own bank account.

The Tierschutzpartei considers more immigration necessary to secure pensions and the labor market. Foreign qualifications should be recognized faster, and refugees should be allowed to work. They should live in decentralized housing rather than collective shelters.

The party says Germany needs more immigration. Degrees from other countries should be accepted faster. Refugees should be allowed to work. They should live in normal homes and not in large shelters. There should be German classes that fit their needs.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women from violence. Women's shelters are to receive uniform, long-term funding nationwide to create the missing places.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get steady money from the state. There should be more places for women in need.

The Tierschutzpartei wants abortion regulated outside criminal law and Section 218 struck. Health insurers should cover the costs, and contraception should be free for everyone.

The Tierschutzpartei wants women to decide about a pregnancy themselves. Abortion should no longer be a crime. Health insurance should pay for it. Contraception should be free.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to reduce gender inequalities in pay, leadership, care work and medicine. It calls for equal pay, disclosure of pay differences and a women's quota in corporate leadership and political bodies.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal chances for women and men. Women should earn the same as men. There should be a quota for women in top jobs and in politics. Fathers should take more parental leave.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to participate fully in all areas of life. It calls for more funding for inclusive schools and daycare centers, accessibility in everyday life and better access to the regular labor market.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to take part everywhere. Children with disabilities should go to regular daycare and schools. There should be more money and staff for this. Buildings, buses and trains should be free of barriers.

The Tierschutzpartei welcomes the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) and wants to remove all remaining legal inequalities affecting queer people. It also calls for rehabilitating everyone convicted under Section 175 and for education in schools.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal rights for queer people. Queer means, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. Schools should teach about this topic. All men once punished for homosexuality should be cleared.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to anchor climate protection in a separate article of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). Federal and state authorities would be obliged to do everything necessary to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees if possible.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to write climate protection into the constitution. The state would then have to do everything to limit warming. The goal is no more than 1.5 degrees.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a starting CO₂ price of 180 euros per ton. The revenue is to be returned to the population in equal shares as a climate dividend.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a high price on CO₂. One ton should cost 180 euros to start. Everyone should get the money back in equal shares.

The Tierschutzpartei stands by ending the registration of new combustion engines by 2035 at the latest. Fossil fuels are also to be phased out, and fracking is to be banned without exception.

From 2035, no new gasoline or diesel cars should be registered. The Tierschutzpartei wants to keep this rule. Fracking should be banned completely. Fracking is a way to get gas out of the ground.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to adapt cities to the effects of the climate crisis. It calls for large programs to unseal paved ground and for more flood protection.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to remove concrete and asphalt in cities. The ground can then take in water and cool the air. There should also be more protection against floods.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to drive the energy transition mainly through photovoltaics and introduce a solar mandate for new buildings and fully renovated roofs. People with low incomes are to receive money for balcony solar units. For wind and hydropower, animal protection is to be given more weight.

The Tierschutzpartei wants much more power from the sun. Every new building should get solar panels. This also applies when a roof is rebuilt. Poor people should get money for a balcony solar unit. Wind turbines and hydropower plants should not harm animals.

The Tierschutzpartei considers the coal phase-out agreed for 2038 too late and wants to bring it forward to 2030 at the latest. It stands by the exit from nuclear energy and rejects a return to nuclear power.

Germany plans to stop using coal by 2038. The Tierschutzpartei thinks that is too late. It wants this done by 2030. Nuclear power should not come back. The party sees nuclear power as dangerous.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to exit oil and gas for building heat and power generation earlier than 2035. The federal government is to cover most of the cost of a heat pump for low-income households. District heating networks are to be modernized and expanded on a large scale.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to move away from oil and gas heating faster. Poor people should get help to buy a heat pump. The state should pay most of it. There should be more district heating. That means heat comes to homes through pipes.

The Tierschutzpartei wants at least 50,000 hectares of drained peat soils to be rewetted each year, instead of the 2,000 hectares achieved so far. Peatlands are to be preserved as carbon stores and habitats. Ongoing drainage is to be stopped and reversed in the long term.

Peatlands store a lot of CO₂. Many peatlands are dry today. The Tierschutzpartei wants to make them wet again. That should be at least 50,000 hectares every year. Nobody should drain peatlands anymore.

The Tierschutzpartei wants binding requirements to cut methane and ammonia emissions from animal farming. No more forests would be cleared for animal feed, and peatlands would be rewetted. Plant-based diets would be promoted more strongly as a climate measure.

Animal farming creates gases that harm the climate. The Tierschutzpartei wants rules that force these gases down. Nobody should cut down forests for animal feed. Drained peatlands should be made wet again.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permanently exempt dogs from shelters or certified animal welfare groups from the dog tax. Registration, microchipping, and liability insurance would become mandatory for all dogs. All owners would have to pass a nationwide test.

There should be no dog tax for dogs from animal shelters. All dogs should get a chip and be registered. Owners need insurance. All owners should take a test.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban bottom trawling, strictly protect ten percent of marine areas and end offshore oil and gas extraction. In the long run it aims to end fishing; until then fleets should shrink and inspections increase.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect the seas better. Nets that drag along the sea floor should be banned. No one should drill for oil and gas at sea anymore. There should be fewer fishing boats.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect and restore natural habitats such as forests, peatlands and river landscapes. Displaced native species are to be reintroduced, wolves and foxes protected, and pesticides that harm biodiversity gradually phased out.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect nature. Forests, peatlands and rivers should become more natural again. Animals that disappeared should come back. Wolves and foxes should be protected. Harmful pesticides should go away step by step.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban exports of plastic waste and reduce plastic packaging in retail. Composite packaging that is hard to recycle and plastic packaging without recycled content are to be banned immediately. It also supports a nationwide packaging tax.

The Tierschutzpartei wants less plastic waste. Germany should stop sending plastic waste abroad. Some kinds of packaging should be banned. There should be a tax on packaging. Stores that sell without packaging should get support.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban large-scale logging and protect old-growth and primeval forests. Forestry is to become ecological and close to nature. Instead of conventional reforestation, the platform relies on forests regenerating on their own.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect forests. Cutting down large areas of forest should be banned. Old forests should stay. Forests should grow back by themselves. No pesticides or chemical fertilizer should be used in forests.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to significantly enlarge the area of nature reserves and prohibit construction, resource extraction and intensive farming there. A state fund is to pay for and coordinate projects that restore ecosystems.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more nature reserves. Nobody should build or mine there. Intensive farming should also be banned there. The state should set up a fund. The money should help restore damaged nature.

The Tierschutzpartei considers the current Animal Welfare Act incomplete and poorly enforced. It wants more staff for veterinary offices, specialized prosecutors, much tougher penalties and a right for animal welfare organizations to sue.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a stricter animal welfare law. Offices should check businesses more often and without warning. People who abuse animals should be punished harder. Animal welfare groups should be allowed to sue. Inspection reports should be public.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to completely ban the sale and use of fireworks by private individuals. It cites the suffering of wild animals and pets, environmental damage and dangers to people. Public low-noise fireworks displays are to remain allowed for a transition period.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban private fireworks. Nobody should buy or set off firecrackers anymore. The party says fireworks scare animals and harm the environment. Quiet public fireworks should still be allowed. Later, drone or laser shows should replace them.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban online sales of animals and the trade in wild animals. All pets would be registered and identified, and courses would be mandatory before getting one. The aim is to prevent poor care, abandonment and neglect.

Nobody would be allowed to sell animals online. Every pet would be registered and marked. People would take a course before getting a pet. This should mean fewer abandoned animals.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a nationwide duty to neuter and identify free-roaming cats. Stray cats, city pigeons and other homeless animals would be cared for with public money.

Cats that roam freely would have to be neutered. This would be the rule in all of Germany. That way there are fewer stray cats. The state would also pay for city pigeons and homeless animals.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to secure permanent funding for animal shelters and introduce national quality standards for them. A state fund would pay for treating animals from shelters and low-income households. Incentives would ensure enough veterinary practices in rural areas.

Animal shelters would get lasting money from the state. The same rules would apply to all shelters. A fund would pay the vet for poor pet owners. There should be enough vets in the countryside too.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to abolish hunting as a pastime and, in the long run, end all hunting. It would be replaced by science-based wildlife management without killing. The platform considers hunting ethically and ecologically indefensible.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban hunting as a hobby. Later there would be no hunting at all. Experts would manage wild animal numbers in other ways. No animal should die in the process.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban the shooting of protected species such as wolves and beavers without exception. Habitats would be preserved through stricter rules for construction and clearing and through wildlife corridors. Poaching would be punished more severely.

Nobody would be allowed to hunt wolves, beavers or birds of prey. The state would stop the shooting of wolves at once. Wild animals would get safe routes to roam. People who hunt illegally would face tougher penalties.

The Tierschutzpartei demands a complete ban on animal testing in all fields and wants to write it into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. Importing and selling products tested on animals would also be prohibited. The platform considers animal experiments ethically indefensible and scientifically questionable.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban all experiments on animals. The ban would be written into the constitution. Products tested on animals could no longer be sold. The party says there are better methods without animals.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to put far more money into research methods without animals and withdraw all public funding from research on animals. A neutral agency would oversee the transition. On the committees that decide on experiment applications, animal welfare and science would have equal representation.

Research without animals would get much more money. Experiments on animals would get no more state money. A new agency would check everything. Animal advocates would have the same say as researchers on applications.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to limit live animal transport to a maximum of two hours immediately and ban exports to non-EU countries without adequate animal welfare. In the long term, long-distance exports would end entirely. The platform cites the animals' suffering from heat, cold, crowding, hunger and thirst.

Animals would be transported for two hours at most. Germany would not send live animals to countries without animal protection. Cameras would watch the transports. Later there would be no long transports at all.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban animals in circuses and shows entirely because, in its view, they cannot be kept appropriately there. Zoos and aquariums without an essential role in species conservation would close in the long term.

There would be no more animals in circuses and shows. The party says animals cannot live well there. Many zoos would close later. Only zoos that protect endangered species would stay.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to regulate animal breeding strictly and ban Qualzucht (breeding that causes suffering) without exception. This means breeding for looks in ways that damage the animals' health. Crosses between wild and domestic animals and imports of bred animals would also be stopped.

Some animals are bred in ways that make them sick. The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban this completely. Nobody would be allowed to breed mixes of wolf and dog. Bred animals from other countries could not be brought in.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to permanently close fur farms in Germany and generally ban breeding animals for fur. Fur from countries with fur farms could be neither imported nor traded. The platform cites animal suffering, environmental damage from chemicals and the availability of animal-free alternatives.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to close all fur farms. Nobody would be allowed to breed animals for fur. Fur from countries with fur farms could no longer be sold. The party says the animals suffer greatly.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to end field trials and commercial cultivation of genetically modified plants. Genetically modified foods are to be clearly labeled, including meat and milk from animals given such feed.

The Tierschutzpartei wants no genetically modified plants on fields. Genetic engineering means people change the genes of plants. Food made with it should carry a label. This also applies to meat and milk.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to scale back intensive livestock farming and abolish large animal operations in the short term. In the longer run, all animal farming that the platform regards as exploitative is to end. Subsidies are meant to enable a switch to purely plant-based agriculture.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to end factory farming. Large animal farms should close soon. Later, this kind of animal farming should stop completely. Farmers should get money to switch to growing plants.

The Tierschutzpartei wants an emissions levy on farms based on herd size and higher taxes on meat, dairy and eggs. Restaurants are always to offer one vegan dish, while schools and daycare centers serve purely plant-based meals. The platform expects this to relieve the health system, farmland and consumers.

The Tierschutzpartei wants meat, milk and eggs to cost more. Farms with many animals should pay a fee. Every restaurant should offer a vegan meal. Vegan means without animal products. Schools and daycare centers should serve plant-based food.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban advertising for meat, sausage, fish, eggs and dairy products as quickly as possible. Animal products from conventional and factory farming are to be clearly labeled. Agricultural overproduction is also to be reduced.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban ads for meat, fish, eggs and milk. Animal products should clearly show how the animals were kept. People should easily spot vegan and vegetarian food. Farms should stop producing too much.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to end food waste. To that end, dumpster diving, meaning taking discarded food from store bins, is to be legalized immediately, and retailers are to pay a tax on food they throw away. Food banks for people and animals are to receive support.

The Tierschutzpartei wants less food to end up in the trash. People should be allowed to take food from store bins. This is called dumpster diving. Stores should pay a tax when they throw food away. Food banks should get help.

The Tierschutzpartei wants slaughtering to be monitored by video and fattening operations to be inspected permanently. People who document abuses in such businesses are not to face criminal prosecution. Antibiotic use in livestock farming is to drop sharply, and glyphosate is to be banned immediately.

The Tierschutzpartei wants cameras in slaughterhouses. Fattening farms should be checked all the time. People who secretly film animal suffering should not be punished. Animals should get far fewer antibiotics. The weed killer glyphosate should be banned right away.

The Tierschutzpartei wants Germany to push for an end to EU direct payments based on area and animal numbers. All farm subsidies are to be tied to ecological, social and ethical standards. An additional EU fund is to finance the exit from industrial livestock farming.

Farmers now get EU money based on land and animal numbers. The Tierschutzpartei wants to end that. Money should only go to work that is good for nature and animals. A new EU fund should pay for ending factory farming.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to scrap state aid for the meat and dairy sector. The money would instead go to plant-based, organic farming. Farmers leaving animal husbandry would receive funding, advice and retraining.

Meat and dairy farms get money from the state today. The Tierschutzpartei wants to stop that. The money would go to farms that only grow plants. Farmers would get help to switch.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for much stricter rules on keeping farm animals. Procedures such as tail docking and beak trimming would be banned, space per animal greatly increased and antibiotic use cut. Unannounced inspections and tougher penalties would enforce the rules.

The Tierschutzpartei wants stricter rules for farm animals. Nobody would be allowed to cut tails or beaks. Animals would get much more space. Officials would inspect farms without warning.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a mandatory label on meat and dairy products showing housing conditions, carbon footprint and environmental impact. Advertising that, in the platform's view, hides the factory-farm origin of products would be banned.

Meat and milk would carry a label. It shows how the animals lived. It also shows the harm to climate and nature. Ads with pictures of happy animals would be banned.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to greatly expand state support for plant-based foods and animal-free products, including through an innovation fund. School programs and campaigns would inform people about plant-based eating. The platform sees this as a response to animal suffering, environmental damage and lifestyle diseases.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more support for food made from plants. The state would set up a special fund for this. Schools would teach about eating without animal products. The party says this helps animals, nature and health.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to keep the 49-euro ticket for now, then make it cheaper, and offer local transit free of charge in the long term. Traffic is to shift from cars to rail. Riding without a ticket would no longer be a criminal offense.

The Tierschutzpartei wants cheaper buses and trains. The 49-euro ticket should stay for now. Later, local transit should cost nothing. There should be more trains and routes. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to build a complete, safe bike lane network faster and expand traffic-calmed areas and pedestrian zones. Car lanes and parking spaces would be repurposed for this. Cycling, walking and motor traffic would get separate paths.

The Tierschutzpartei wants more safe bike lanes. Some car lanes would become bike lanes. Cities should have more pedestrian zones. Parking spaces would make room for them. Bikes, pedestrians and cars should have their own paths.

The Tierschutzpartei demands a general speed limit of 130 km/h on autobahns to protect safety and the environment. It considers new autobahns unnecessary and wants to reform the tax break for company cars.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a speed limit on autobahns. The top speed would be 130 km/h. There should be no new autobahns. The state should stop heavily subsidizing company cars. People who truly need a car should get compensation.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to tax jet fuel and flights at 20 percent or more and ban short-haul and domestic flights in the long term. It cites climate protection and regards flying as a luxury. It is highly critical of airport expansion.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to make flying more expensive. Jet fuel and flights should be taxed at 20 percent or more. Short flights and flights within Germany should later be banned. Trains should be cheaper than planes.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to move heavy and freight transport onto rail and waterways in the long term and raise the truck toll to that end. This is meant to relieve roads, the environment and transport workers.

The Tierschutzpartei wants fewer trucks on the roads. Goods should travel by train and ship. The toll for trucks should go up. A toll is a fee for using the road. Later, the party wants to do without air freight.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to hold large platforms accountable when they moderate content inadequately and demands consistent fact-checking in broadcasting and the press. Online hate crime, threats and cyberbullying are to be prosecuted more strictly.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to act against false news online. Large platforms should check content better. If not, they should be held liable. The state should pursue online hate and threats more strictly. All young people should have access to devices and the internet.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to equip low-income households with laptops or tablets free of charge. In its view, digital participation is a prerequisite for education, work and social life. Older people are to get help using digital technology.

Poor households should get a laptop or tablet for free. That is what the Tierschutzpartei wants. Then everyone can learn and work online. Older people should get free courses on digital technology.

The Tierschutzpartei wants websites, apps and online services to be usable by people with impairments. It calls for a stronger legal obligation to ensure digital inclusion.

The Tierschutzpartei wants digital services without barriers. People with impairments should be able to use websites and apps too. The party wants stricter rules for this.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to extend the mobile network and community Wi-Fi (Freifunk) across Germany and roll out fiber everywhere. Public facilities should offer free Wi-Fi.

The Tierschutzpartei wants better cell phone coverage all over Germany. Fast fiber internet should reach every place. Public buildings should offer free Wi-Fi.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a dedicated digital ministry to coordinate digitalization across several policy areas. It also wants fewer bureaucratic hurdles and government services available both online and in person.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a ministry just for digital matters. It should steer digitalization. Dealing with offices should get easier. People should be able to do things online or in person.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects the current border checks as ineffective symbolic politics and wants to end police stops without suspicion and racial profiling. The domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz) is to be reformed transparently.

The Tierschutzpartei opposes the checks at the borders. It says they achieve little and hold up commuters. Police should not stop people without a reason. The domestic intelligence agency should change and work more openly.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban far-right parties and groups and to prosecute and punish right-wing extremists more firmly. Islamist terrorism is to be fought just as resolutely. Education, prevention and exit programs are to be expanded.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to ban far-right parties and groups. The state should pursue right-wing extremists more strictly. The party also wants to fight Islamist terrorism. People who want to leave extremism should get help. Schools should teach more about the Nazi era.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects the state collecting the church tax and paying, for example, bishops' salaries. It invokes the separation of church and state.

Today the state collects the church tax for the churches. The party wants this to stop. The state should not pay bishops either. Church and state should be separate.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to cap party donations at 50,000 euros per person or company per year and broaden the lobby register. Members of parliament would be barred from sitting on corporate executive or supervisory boards at the same time. The aim is to reduce the influence of wealthy industries on politics.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to limit large donations to parties. One donor could give at most 50,000 euros a year. Lobbyists should be listed in a register. Lobbyists speak for the interests of companies or groups. Lawmakers should not run companies at the same time.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to lower the five-percent threshold to no more than one percent so that votes for small parties are represented in parliament. It also calls for a nationwide voting age of 16 and citizens' assemblies chosen by lot.

Today a party needs five percent of the vote to enter the Bundestag. The Tierschutzpartei wants to lower this to one percent. Young people should be able to vote at 16. Citizens' assemblies should advise politicians. These are groups of citizens picked by lottery.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects rising military budgets and special funds and wants to steer the money into education, the environment and social programs. The Bundeswehr is to remain a defensive army focused mainly on peacekeeping. Conflicts should be resolved primarily through negotiation.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to spend less on the military. The money should go to education, the environment and social programs. The Bundeswehr should mainly keep the peace. Countries should settle disputes by talking.

The Tierschutzpartei rejects arms deliveries to the entire Middle East because, in its view, they escalate conflicts and cause civilian casualties. It wants sanctions against the governments of Israel and Egypt so that aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip are no longer blocked.

The Tierschutzpartei wants no weapons sent to the Middle East. It says weapons make the conflicts worse. It wants to put pressure on Israel and Egypt. Aid should reach the people in the Gaza Strip.

The Tierschutzpartei calls for a long-term peace strategy for Ukraine and the surrounding region. It wants to keep supporting humanitarian aid projects and protect refugees.

The Tierschutzpartei wants a lasting plan for peace in Ukraine. It wants to keep supporting aid projects. Refugees from Ukraine should get protection. Talks between countries matter to the party.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to require schools, hospitals and cafeterias to offer vegan meals. Municipalities and restaurants that expand their plant-based offerings would receive support.

Schools and hospitals would have to offer vegan food. Vegan means: without products from animals. Towns that serve a lot of plant food would get money. Restaurants would get help too.