(en) France, Alternative Libertaire Alsace - Factory farms:
Steinseltz for the tip! (fr) [machine translation]
While we are told for several decades now, the industry is in the past, the plants will
continue to close and that the working men and women have no future (except in China),
that Some large companies have chosen to industrialize agriculture profoundly. An
emblematic case in Alsace: the Schafbusch Steinseltz farm near Wissembourg. ----
Disseminating the Peasant Confederation of factories farms France map helped to highlight
the generalization of this process more than thirty well advanced projects are identified,
including 1 in Alsace. ---- Megalomania ---- This is to extend the Schafbusch farm
Steinseltz that "student" pullets intended to be sold for the production of eggs: the
ability 306,000 pullets therefore not enough, it takes 692,000, or 1.5 million chickens a
year! So this means allocating a space of 10 to 15cm on each pool. 150 000 hens SARL
Zacher in Preuschdorf, renowned Alsace largest chicken can go get dressed.
To achieve this goal, the "farm" Schafbusch practical course in a battery farm
(euphemistically renamed "cages" on its website ). Yet this alleged farm already looks
furiously at a poultry factory at least fifteen employees and a turnover of 7 million half
euros in 2013.
With this extension, the plant will also produce 11 tons per day of various excreta and
waste ... she hopes to develop by composting.
A destructive pattern
When talking about quality Schafbusch factory on its site, is to boast its modern
equipment, knowledgeable staff ... but never its production. Of course, in this type of
factory farming, quality of production (including the media, brands and advertising rehash
us great blow to the ears of green landscapes of "authentic tradition") is not really a goal.
By cons, lowering prices, factory farming leads to the disappearance of thousands of
farmers each year, which in turn could produce different!
Published February 27, 2015 by CAL Alsace
http://alsace.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article669
