Pekin Duck-fattening from Melle unfairly pilloried?

Peta speaks of anguish breeding

Melle. After the ARD had reported on Tuesday evening in the program "Report Mainz" about a Peking duck-fattening farm in Melle-Schlochtern and have used it secretly taken pictures of the animal rights organization Peta, were Peta-adviser Edmund Haferbeck demanded yesterday by Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Gert Lindemann: "Stop You cruelty to animals in the farms. "

6500 Peking ducks were yesterday in the pole barn at Melle. It was here pictures of Peta, the serious violations of the Animal Protection Act are intended to show. For the fattening Tobias Meyer Schlochtern the allegations are unfounded. It would have also shown the official controls.

Tobias Meyer Schlochtern was created illegally in the pekin duck-fattening unit at least some of the recordings, the charge of cruelty to animals exhibited yesterday in an interview with our newspaper back vigorously. "Peta has zeroed in on the company Wiesenhof, and we fatteners are in there pulled." In fact, the animal rights organization has been doing years attention to alleged and actual abuses in German breeding and fattening farms that produce for the food producers Wiesenhof (Visbek).

Wiesenhof, claims to be "Germany's No. 1 poultry brand", brought the chicks for fattening operation in Schlochtern, delivered the food and took approximately 43 days after the then slaughtering ducks again. Meyer Schlochtern has been separated but a few weeks ago from Wiesenhof "mutual agreement" to avoid being placed in the pillory with.



According to Peta, the pictures in Schlochtern in April / May as part of the recent "undercover research" had arisen. "Our investigators came to the farm several times on an immense cruelty to animals," Peta said yesterday consultant Haferbeck. On a day 100 even ducks would still lying on his back, because they breed because of chest and suffered from heart-leg weakness. They would therefore die of thirst or starvation in agony, even before they were killed.

"This is utter nonsense," protested the wage fatteners. Only now and then individual animals would lie on his back. "In certain periods of growth, they tend, as everyone knows who deals with these animals." In addition, Meyer is qualified to Schlochtern of professionals. For evidence of the television station had the vet at the county and taken regardless of a Commissioner of the QA Quality Circle, which belonged to his farm, the barn under the microscope. "From their perspective, everything was okay."

Peta has the words oat Beck yesterday sent a ten page document to the prosecutor's complaint of Osnabrück and "pain breed 'reimbursed. A spokesman for the Authority was unable to confirm receipt but not yet.

Is the CDU member of parliament, Ernst-August Hoppe Brock (Melle), also the economic spokesman for his group, explained upon request, the State Government review at present, whether the housing conditions were better for ducks and would be required, for example, bathing equipment for aquatic animals.