Animal Peace

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Animal Peace eV is an animal rights organization that is recognized as a non-profit organization. It carries out both legal and illegal actions in the field of animal welfare.

history

Animal Peace was founded in 1986 in Frankfurt am Main by the autonomous animal rights activists Jacomo A. Waldherr and Andi Wolff, who were also the chairmen of the association . The seat has been in Moers since 2005 , the first chairman is Silke Ruthenberg. According to its own information, the association has around 5000 members.

job

The aim of the association is not only to recognize animal rights based on basic human rights, but also to demand a vegan, i.e. H. animal product-free diet. The means to achieve this goal are said to be non-violent, but are not always legal . In the context of so-called animal exemptions, burglaries and thefts in animal breeding businesses are promoted and carried out themselves. Unauthorized demonstrations in zoos are also one of the organization's forms of action.

The right to life, physical integrity and life in freedom are demanded for animals. All animal husbandry for the purposes of research, nutrition or entertainment is therefore incompatible. The members of the association are mostly vegans .

Investigations

In 1995, the Darmstadt public prosecutor's office investigated Animal Peace for fraud and breach of trust. According to the findings of the Offenbach criminal police , the organization had raised around one million DM in donations in three years , but only one percent of the sum was used for animal welfare.

Ruthenberg said in an interview with Die Welt that “99 percent of our spending goes on advertising and campaigns”. It has never been different.

criticism

The organization is viewed critically by various organizations in the field of animal welfare. The Focus writes in issue No. 28/1995:

"Heinz Kourim, Vice President of the German Animal Welfare Association: 'We suffer because they are talking nonsense.' Martina Moorbach from the rival organization 'Vier Pfoten' from Hamburg even asks whether Animal Peace 'only wants to achieve something for the public or actually something'. After all, she has never seen anyone from Animal Peace doing the difficult and camera-unattractive lobbying work in Bonn "

- Frank Siering : FOCUS Online

At the beginning of 2015, the organization came under fire because it hailed the killing of a Nümbrecht farmer by a cattle bull on January 8, 2015 in an article on one of its websites. In the article, chairwoman Silke Ruthenberg celebrated the animal as a "hero of freedom", which acted in "emergency aid", and described the farmers as "kidnappers", "slave owners" and "accomplices". "A three-year-old bull attacked and fatally injured his slave owner near Cologne," wrote Ruthenberg. “We bow to the hero of freedom. May many more cattle follow him in the revolt of the servants. ”The German Animal Welfare Association then distanced itself from Ruthenberg: Anyone who celebrates the death of a person“ does not belong in the ranks of serious animal welfare, it damages serious animal welfare massively ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frank Siering: ANIMAL PROTECTION: Goes completely off. In: Focus Online . July 10, 1995, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Animal Peace. (No longer available online.) In: animal-peace.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Laura Hertreiter: Rinderwahnsinn, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 22, January 28, 2015, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Jost Maurin: Animal rights activists cheer attack by cattle: the farmer dies, vegans are happy. In: taz.de . January 31, 2015, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Veronika Wulf: After a fatal accident of a farmer: The dubious adoration of a bull. In: Spiegel Online . January 27, 2015, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Viva Vegan - Bull kills kidnappers - an obituary. In: viva-vegan.info. July 11, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Laura Hertreiter: Rinderwahnsinn, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 22, January 28, 2015, p. 10.
  8. ↑ Laura Hertreiter: Rinderwahnsinn, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 22, January 28, 2015, p. 10.

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