Wietze poultry slaughterhouse

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Wietze poultry slaughterhouse

The poultry slaughterhouse in Wietze is a slaughterhouse for poultry in Wietze ( Lower Saxony ) that was built in 2010. The Wietze poultry slaughterhouse is part of the Celler Land Frischgeflügel company as part of the Rothkötter group of companies .

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The slaughterhouse, which was built in 2010, is located about 1.5 kilometers outside the town of Wietze in the district of Celle and started operations in autumn 2011. According to the company, there are currently 360 employees, 80 percent of them permanent and 20 percent temporary workers . With the planned 27,000 slaughterings per hour, it would have been the largest in Europe.

The new building was subsidized with 6.5 million euros from the state of Lower Saxony and a further 800,000 euros from the black and yellow federal government .

Controversy over the slaughterhouse

The construction of the slaughterhouse has been highly controversial both in the population and in politics at local and state level since the start of planning. While the municipal administration, the district of Celle and the black and yellow state government hoped for economic impetus for the structurally weak region and new jobs, Alliance 90 / The Greens and the Left Party rejected the project.

In October 2009, a citizens' initiative was founded in the village of Wietze , which tried several times without success against the major project. After the completion of the slaughterhouse, the protests concentrated on the necessary new building of fattening systems, which are to act as suppliers to the poultry slaughterhouse in Wietze. In the summer of 2010 the building site of the slaughterhouse was occupied by animal rights activists , after three months the occupation was cleared by the SEK on August 3 . On August 31, 2013 it came under the motto We are fed up with agricultural industry! to a protest against the slaughterhouse by around 5,000 people who formed a human chain around the facility.

In Lower Saxony there were four unexplained arson attacks in empty fattening systems that were newly built as suppliers to the Wietze poultry slaughterhouse. There are letters confessing to the acts that identify with the Animal Liberation Front . The owners suffered considerable damage to property .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What kind of jobs are in the slaughterhouse? on the works homepage / FAQ ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / landgefluegel.de
  2. ^ Stefan Roth : Sustainability . Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3834931795 p. 182
  3. ↑ Susanne Schrammar: Millions of chickens from Wietze - dispute over poultry slaughterhouse in Lower Saxony . In: Deutschlandradio , February 16, 2010. Retrieved May 16, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Website of the "Citizens' Initiative Wietze for the Preservation of our Aller-Leine Valley"
  5. ^ TAZ, August 10, 2010: Police clear occupied building site
  6. ↑ For clean food: mass protest in Wietze. ( Memento from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: NDR.de , September 1, 2013.
  7. ^ Matthias Rude: Mast systems flared . In: Junge Welt , December 12, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2012. 

Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 26 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 49"  E