German Green Party looks to ban all industrial animal farming

The Green Party in Germany has said it intends to ban industrial animal farming as part of a wide-ranging and costly package to combat climate change should they come to power.

JORG LUYKEN: ‘The Green Party in Germany has said it intends to ban industrial animal farming as part of a wide-ranging and costly package to combat climate change should they come to power. Katrin Goering-Eckardt, the party’s leader in the Germany parliament, said her party would establish a fund worth at least €100 billion to finance climate projects including dam construction, reforestation and environmentally friendly transportation projects. Ms Goering-Eckardt did not go into further details on a timeline for the prohibition of intensively reared meat… Christian Lindner, the leader of the pro-business Free Democrats, warned that the Greens “dream of a meat-less country”…

Ms Goering-Eckardt told the German tabloid Bild am Sonntag that public attitudes have transformed, with Germans realizing that drastic action on global warming is required. “Many people have now understood that things are going to change fundamentally,” the 53-year-old said. “The question is whether we make the changes ourselves or allow ourselves to be swept over by the climate crisis”… Ms Goering-Eckardt also argued that it was a question of Germany doing it itself or facing fines of up to €60 billion (£53.4bn) from Brussels. The Green party are currently riding a wave of popularity that makes it ever more probable that they will help form the next coalition government in Europe’s largest economy’. SOURCE…

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