Ein neues Großprojekt für Massentierhaltung mit bis zu
23.500 Milchkühen ist in Spanien geplant
Die Noviercas Massentierhaltung in Soria, Kastilien soll eine Produktion von 180 Millionen Litern Milch pro Jahr erbringen und wäre damit die größte Anlage in der EU. Umweltschützer wie Friends of the Earth Spain, Greenpeace, COAG and Food & Water Europe wie auch Landwirte protestieren gegen dieses Viehhzuchtmodell nach amerikanischem Muster. Die Anlage würde 900 Hektar Land benötigen und einen Verbrauch von 600.000 kg Futter und 4-6 Millionen Liter Wasser täglich. Geplant ist das Mega-Projekt von der Kooperative Valle de Odieta, welche bereits eine Anlage mit 4.800 Kühen besitzt. Eine solche Milch-Fabrik bedeutet Tierqual und ist das Gegenteil dessen, was die EU-Bürger zunehmend wollen, nämlich eine ökologisch nachhaltige Landwirtschaft. Auf keinen Fall darf dieses Großprojekt für Massentierhaltung gebaut werden. Dafür setze ich mich ein und unterzeichne die Petition:
(Brief)
Weitere Informationen:https://www.foodandwatereurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/FoodandWaterEuropeEnglishNoviercasmegafarm.pdf
ENGLISH Brief:
Excma. Sra. Dña. Teresa Ribera Rodríguez
Ministra para la Transición Ecológica
Excmo. Sr. Don Luis Planas Puchades
Ministro de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Excma. Sra. Dña. Milagros Marcos Ortega
Consejera de Agricultura y Ganadería
Gobierno de Castilla y León
Excmo. Sr. Don Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones y Fernández
Consejero de Fomento y Medio Ambiente
Gobierno de Castilla y León
Please, don’t authorise the 20.000-cow dairy factory farm in Noviercas, Soria
Dear Ministers,
We write you regarding the dairy factory farm planned by the co-op Valle del Odieta in Noviercas, Soria, that would host up to 23.5000 cows. If this mega factory farm is finally built, it would be the biggest dairy farm in the European Union. It would create a bad precedence to bring to Europe this livestock farming model from the US, where severe impacts have been documented on local communities, the environment, water and rural economies.
According to the available data, such a factory farm would mean:
- Replacing one third of the dairy farms in the region, destroying more than 700 direct employments. With the dairy sector already facing a difficult moment, this factory farm could only destabilize an important part of the local rural economy.
- A water consumption bigger than the total consumption of the city of Soria, that would compete with other water needs in the region. There is already an application to extract 24,59 liters per second from the aquifer.
- The generation of more than 368,000 tons of manure per year, the equivalent to the waste produced by the entire population of the regions of Castille and Leon and Castille-La Mancha. This huge concentration of manure would threaten aquifers and rivers in the area, as well as public health and local wildlife.
- Animal welfare conditions in these mega factory farms and such a big concentration of animals would force the use of antibiotics that can further aggravate antibiotic resistance problems.
Therefore, we urge you to take the necessary measures to stop such a factory farm. The European Union should stand for its model of social farming, in which these factory farms have no place. Furthermore, we encourage you to promote alternative models of development in the area of Noviercas that promote sustainable agriculture and livestock farming, environmental protection and rural development.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchner
Brussels, 4/2/2019