Tierschutzpartei on agriculture

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.

In the platform's view, genetic engineering endangers biodiversity, disrupts ecosystems and makes farms dependent on agribusiness corporations. The stop is meant to prevent modified plants from spreading into natural habitats. Instead, the party wants to support research into and use of sustainable methods in organic farming.

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.

Beyond ending large operations, the number of animals kept per area is to fall sharply. The subsidies are also meant to pay off loans that farmers took out for livestock in recent years. Forms of husbandry the platform calls cruel are to be banned. The same applies to imports of products from such intensive farming.

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 levy on farms is to rise with the number of animals kept. The duty to offer at least one vegan option applies to hotels and restaurants. In schools, daycare centers, kindergartens and after-school care, meals are to be plant-based, healthy and balanced. Animal ethics and ecological behavior are to become mandatory in the curriculum.

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.

Under the motto of quality over quantity, the platform calls for cutting agricultural overproduction. One label is to make products from conventional and factory farming visible. Another label is to distinguish vegan and vegetarian foods from those containing animal ingredients.

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 best-before date is to be supplemented with additional information. Restaurants and other food businesses are to be urged to use apps that pass on leftover food that is still edible. The disposal tax targets food retailers.

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.

Video recording is meant to make piece-rate slaughtering harder. Stricter rules and constant inspections are to prevent mistreatment in fattening operations. Preventive use of antibiotics is to be sanctioned; the platform cites a vote in which more than 95 percent favored fewer antibiotics. Meat businesses with poor hygiene face tougher penalties, up to a ban on working and producing. The party demands stricter rules for pesticides that harm health.

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.

In the platform's view, the current EU budget is not enough for an exit from industrial livestock farming. Germany is therefore to back a transition fund that, according to the platform, an EU expert panel has already proposed. The agricultural industry is also to be included in emissions trading to reduce its climate impact.

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 platform calls organic vegan farming a core part of the agricultural transition. Farmers who switch would get financial aid, networks and advice. Retraining and start-up support would be funded nationwide. Local makers of animal-free products would receive targeted support, as would research into production methods without animal components. New jobs are to be created in producing and marketing plant-based products.

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.

Castration would only be allowed by trained experts under anesthesia. Barns would need structured areas, outdoor access and daylight so animals can scratch, root and move. Strict rules would sharply reduce antibiotic use to prevent resistance. The platform rejects rearing male chicks of laying breeds and dual-purpose breeds, and wants to stop egg imports from countries that still allow chick culling. For animal cruelty it foresees heavy fines and criminal prosecution.

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 label would be mandatory and show housing conditions, carbon footprint and environmental effects. Factory-farmed products could no longer be advertised as natural or sustainable. The platform also wants to prohibit images of contented animals, arguing that they deceive buyers and play down animal suffering.

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.

More money would go into producing, developing and marketing plant-based products. A mandatory label for plant-based foods, clothing and other goods would show origin, production and environmental friendliness. Schools would get modules on animal rights, sustainable nutrition and the global effects of animal farming. Vegan diets would be treated as preventive health care, and research on their effects and on nutrient-rich vegan products would get more funding.