What happens to the many breeding animals that are exported from Germany to the world? They land – for example – in Qatar – by plane. Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world, but relies on imports for food. Now the little emirate wants to be self-sufficient. No matter what it costs. Especially for the animals!

On a mega-dairy farm with 14,000 cows. Soon it will be 20,000. A total of 30 luxury stables will be built!!

“This is pretty much the last place in the world where you would build a dairy farm,” says Peter Weltevreden. He must know, because Weltevreden is the boss of Baladna, the most extraordinary cow stall in the world. The company is preparing to provide the desert state of Qatar with milk and dairy products.

The desire for self-sufficiency has a serious background: Saudi Arabia and the neighboring Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi – traditionally Qatar’s major trading partners – accuse the Qatari of supporting terrorism and seeking proximity to Shiite Iran. In mid-2017, Saudi Arabia closed the border and cut the emirate off its traditional supply routes. Other countries in the Sunni-Arab world joined the boycott. Procuring food has suddenly become a national challenge for the richest country in the world.

Especially dairy products were scarce. They were delivered almost exclusively from Saudi Arabia. Every day, 400 tons of yoghurt, milk and cheese crossed the border.

Dairy cattle by air freight

In the future, 20,000 cows will be responsible for milk, yoghurt and meat “made in Quatar”. The first 4,000 cows were flown in without further ado. Now the remaining cows are delivered by ship, Black Holsteiners cows from all over the world. The food is also brought by ship, the water prepared for the animal. A gigantic effort. A muscle game. And part of a larger plan for Qatar to build alternative industries to the lucrative gas business.  Most of the Holsteiner Frisians are from the USA; there were not many in Europe, that’s what the company says.

Livestock at 50 degrees outside temperature sounds bizarre. But farms like Baladna are nothing new in the Middle East. Everything is imported, including the professionals. Water is recycled. The stables be cooled.

“The special tunnel ventilation system has been specially designed for us,” says Ramez Al-Khayyat, owner of Baldana Farm, “as well as the water mist cooling system that controls the climate – something that is nowhere else in the world.” The air conditioning provides 25 degrees, fans exude a slight breeze in the halls. “The animals will be better off here than in Europe”, so his analysis.

And now , cattle from Germany should prevent a food crisis in the Gulf of Qatar. Although the first Holsteiner cows were supplied by a Hungarian dealer, industry experts know that they are originally from Germany.
But in northern Germany, no breeding cattle association currently wants to come out to Qatar as a current or future cattle supplier. “We have no contacts to Qatar and no other customers in Arabia,” says a spokeswoman for the cattle breeding association Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.

Edmund Haferbeck, agricultural expert of the animal protection organization PETA, describes the cow connection as “completely wrong and meaningless”. For one thing, the animals would have been carted to the airports through half of Europe; on the other hand, Qatar has neither the know-how for cattle breeding nor the climatic and holding possibilities.

“If I hear that the Qatarians have European animal husbandry standards, it is more of a cause for concern than reassurance,” says the PETA man. “I even believe that there is not even an animal protection law in Qatar.” Completely nonsensical is the action anyway, says Haferbeck, because many people in Arabia, like Asians, lack an enzyme in the body that can process dairy products”!

https://taz.de/Eine-Luftbruecke-der-besonderen-Art/!5426849/

My comment: An end to the blockade is not in sight. But instead of the planned isolation, it seems to bring Qatar economic reforms.
Although Qatar is small, has become extremely rich through the trade in liquefied gas from the Gulf. With the import of cows Qatar wants to prove (in addition to other political aspects) that the country can provide itself.

A cow in a climate environment under 30 degrees requires 100 liters of water per day. We can imagine how many liters of water need 25,000 cows in a 50 degree desert.

These cows in these mega stables will almost certainly never put a hoof in the desert in their  life because cows should get as little upset as possible to give them as much milk as possible.

They will do what cows all over the world and in any farm do: eat, sleep, calve, give milk.
Heat, embers and gerbils are a potential source of excitement. Everything is obviously kept sterile and eerie, as if they were not live beings.

The animals in the factories here in Europe are not better, they are even worse.

But the air-conditioned mega stables with suffering animals in the middle of nowhere are no progress in the factories of slavery.

“It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands…but empty cages, the total eradication of these barbarous practices” (Tom Regan)

My best regards to all, Venus

🐷You’ve heard of sow stalls, but have you heard of boar stalls?

In an unseen facet of pig farming, boars are kept in small stalls all their lives, only briefly being released for semen collection a couple of times a week.

Please share Boe’s story.
Stay tuned for the full investigation of this facility.

Best regards to all, Venus

Human being has always been a murderer, rapist and warrior! Everywhere is the human species responsible for pure horror, sheer horror: in factory farming, in laboratories, in the clothing industry, in the circus industry, in entertainment … absolute lawlessness against animals, absolute sadism of human tormentors.

It’s almost amazing how routinely this torture of plucking is done.

The victims are the animals, victims of brutal auxiliary workers in horror places who treat and dismember living beings like puppets.
And these tortures have been practiced for decades and supported massively by a society that morally and as far as animals are concerned, still lives in the Stone Age. And even with pleasure!

Now that autumn and winter are coming: Buy your blankets, pillows and jackets only from synthetic or natural materials!

The advertising industry is trying by all means to sell feather products as a non plus ultra for warm clothes.
There is no heat in these products, only hell!
And behind them exists a whole mafia industry of exploitation and shocking cruelty .
Everyone who buys feather products is either uninformed or an asshole!

Best regards to all, Venus

http://www.netzfrauen.org

“Poultry meat is popular. And rightly so. Because in addition to enjoyable taste experiences, poultry meat provides many important nutrients that make it particularly valuable for a balanced diet, “said the German poultry industry.

Despite all the criticisms and scandals, the global meat market continues to grow. Particularly popular are the antibiotics-fed chicken. At the Oktoberfest in Munich alone 510,000 whole chickens are sold.
In Germany, more than 90 million chickens are kept for egg production a year, producing about 12 billion eggs. The animals are reared within 32 days, from hatching to slaughter, and then slaughtered in the chord. These are chickens that vegetate in tons of fecal matter, in stalls that are too narrow.

“Wiesenhof” wants to kill 240,000 chickens a day in his abattoir in Brandenburg alone.
“Meat is one of the most important drivers of growth in Europe,” says lobbyist and EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, and he also funds this industry with millions of dollars in taxpayer money. Meat consumption should be even further boosted. The production of poultry meat is expected to increase above average until 2027. Despite all the scandals and criticism, the meat industry breeds and kills more chickens than ever!
German Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner also supports the agricultural lobby. Although a new animal welfare label was presented, but who should check the husbandry form?

Because it’s time, we already have Chinese standards in animal welfare!

If consumers knew how chickens are bred, they would never eat their meat again!

Crushed, kicked, and disposed of alive – in Germany live 99% of all broiler chickens in holdings with over 10,000 animals.
In Germany, 30 million chickens die each year before slaughter due to poor housing conditions.

Not only the animals suffer terrible torments, also the human being is affected. According to a recent report, the practices of intensive chicken production contribute to the increase in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria that are transmissible from animals to humans, such as Campylobacter, Salmonella and E. coli.
For decades, factory owners have been pumping antibiotics into the animals to make up for inhuman and disease-causing conditions.

Now fight back bacteria. This is extremely worrying as the number of serious infections with E. coli is at record levels and increasing from year to year. E. coli is by far the most common cause of urinary tract infection and dangerous human blood poisoning, and it can also cause meningitis. These infections can be fatal if they do not respond to antibiotics.

Yet, for the ten-year period 2017-2027, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) forecast global meat production growth. Front-runner is 2027 poultry meat with a market share of 38 percent of total meat production !!

In Germany live about 94 million chickens for chicken production. In the short-mast, the chickens are already slaughtered after 28 to 30 days of life with about 1.5 kg body weight.
Groups of 10,000 or more animals are common in the individual fattening stables, often there are up to 40,000 animals in a fattening facility.

Often the animals, in despair, peck each other so hard that they bleed and sometimes even kill each other. The immense density makes the life of animals a torture.
In most cases, the animals have no access to fresh air, because the haunted by overwhelming ammonia stench halls are fully automated and vented.
Due to poor husbandry conditions, the mortality rate of chickens is particularly high.
There is little or no veterinary help.

Workers clean the halls of dead animals every day.
To keep the chickens moving as little as possible, they are mostly kept in dim light.

At the slaughterhouse

The transport to the slaughterhouse begins with kicks and punches of the catcher squads. Animals are grabbed by the legs and thrown into the pits. Very often break wings or legs.

With each slaughter, and according to the German animal protection law applies: Animals may never be killed without previous and appropriate stunning.

In poultry, especially in electrical stunning methods, the required fixation of the poultry may be relevant to animal welfare because, especially when hanging heavier animals in the area of ​​the stand, a high pressure is usually built up.
In electric water bath stunning systems, however, the current flows in parallel through the animals simultaneously. In this arrangement, due to different resistances of the animals flows also different current through in the animals, and therefore, some animals show signs of poor anesthesia.

Several scientists point out that malnutrition in the slaughter of chickens routinely occur and cause the animals to suffer unimaginably.

The affected animals are then – hanging upside down on hooks – consciously slashed the throat with a knife.
However, some of the animals manage to avoid the throat-cutting by panicking. They are then usually the complete head separated – also without anesthesia.

https://netzfrauen.org/2019/09/24/huehner-2-2/#more-66140

My comment: And the following undercover investigation (video) of the SOKO Animal Welfare Association will undo the illusions of those who believe in the fairy tale of organic animal husbandry, buy this chicken meat with a clear conscience, and pay extra like idiots for animal cruelty from organic farms! !!

In Germany, 50 million male chicks are gassed annually just because they have the wrong sex. Even so, the undercover investigation proves that many thousands of female animals are also cruelly disposed of, simply because too many of them were produced, although that is forbidden.

When it comes to cutting costs and maximizing profits, the meat mafia knows no laws and no rules.

For the Dachau of the animals is the meat mafia, but especially their helpers, the meat consumers, guilty.

My best regards to all, Venus