Federal popular initiative "For the dignity of farm animals (horned cow initiative)"
The federal popular initiative "For the dignity of farm animals" , also known as the horned cow initiative , was a Swiss popular initiative . It demanded that the federal government support farms if the horns of both male and female adult domestic cattle and domestic goats are left with their horns. The initiative was put to a vote on November 25, 2018 and failed both because of the majority of the people and the cantons .
Emergence
The initiator and mountain farmer Armin Capaul was bothered by the fact that dehorned cows are kept more and more frequently . He became politically active and wrote several letters a. a. to the Federal Council. As a result, Louis Schelbert submitted a minority motion in the federal parliament as part of the 2014–2017 agricultural policy and Roberto Zanetti submitted a motion entitled “Production system contributions for horned animals”. However, both were rejected.
In December 2013, Armin Capaul then submitted the "Horn Francs" petition , which went unanswered. Capaul then launched the popular initiative in September 2014 and began collecting signatures.
At the end of March 2016, the initiative was submitted with 120,130 certified signatures and officially came about with 119,626 signatures.
Initiative text
The federal constitution is amended as follows:
Art. 104 para. 3 let. b
He [the federal government] aligns the measures in such a way that agriculture fulfills its multifunctional tasks. In particular, it has the following powers and tasks:
b. With economically worthwhile incentives, it promotes forms of production that are particularly close to nature, environmentally friendly and animal-friendly; In particular, he ensures that keepers of cows, breeding bulls, goats and breeding billy goats receive financial support as long as the adult animals have horns.
Opinion polls
Institute | Client | date | Yes | Rather yes | Tie No answer |
Rather no | No |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LeeWas GmbH | Tamedia | November 9, 2018 | 39 | 6th | 3 | 6th | 46 |
possibly Bern | SRG SSR | 3rd November 2018 | 35 | 14th | 5 | 14th | 32 |
LeeWas GmbH | Tamedia | October 26, 2018 | 38 | 13 | 7th | 10 | 32 |
LeeWas GmbH | Tamedia | October 9, 2018 | 36 | 17th | 8th | 10 | 29 |
possibly Bern | SRG SSR | October 7, 2018 | 36 | 22nd | 6th | 17th | 19th |
Comments: Figures in percent. The date indicates the middle point in time of the survey, not the point in time when the survey was published.
Voting result
The initiative failed both because of the majority of the people (45.3 percent yes-votes) and because of the majority of the cantons , with a turnout of 46.7 percent.
Canton | Yes (%) | No (%) | Participation (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Aargau | 41.7 | 58.3 | 46.2 |
Appenzell Ausserrhoden | 44.3 | 55.7 | 52 |
Appenzell Innerrhoden | 34 | 66 | 47.3 |
Basel-Country | 51.6 | 48.4 | 47.9 |
Basel city | 56.8 | 43.2 | 55.9 |
Bern | 45.9 | 54.1 | 48.5 |
Freiburg | 33.8 | 66.2 | 44 |
Geneva | 59.9 | 40.1 | 44.1 |
Glarus | 50.9 | 49.1 | 43.8 |
Grisons | 49.3 | 50.7 | 47.7 |
law | 34.8 | 65.2 | 41.5 |
Lucerne | 36.3 | 63.7 | 51 |
Neuchâtel | 44 | 56 | 41.6 |
Nidwalden | 40.7 | 59.3 | 53.5 |
Obwalden | 35.9 | 64.1 | 54.8 |
Schaffhausen | 50.1 | 49.9 | 66.8 |
Schwyz | 39.2 | 60.8 | 52 |
Solothurn | 47.7 | 52.3 | 46.9 |
St. Gallen | 41.1 | 58.9 | 48.1 |
Ticino | 50.4 | 49.6 | 45.2 |
Thurgau | 38.5 | 61.5 | 47.4 |
Uri | 42.6 | 57.4 | 45.0 |
Vaud | 41.2 | 58.8 | 44.9 |
Valais | 48.8 | 51.2 | 51.7 |
train | 40.9 | 59.1 | 52.9 |
Zurich | 48.1 | 51.9 | 51.3 |
Swiss Confederation | 45.3 | 54.7 | 46.7 |
Web links
- Website of the initiators
- Federal Chancellery dossier on the initiative
- SRF , Arena from November 2, 2018: “Voting Arena”: Horned Cow Initiative
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horny Cow: Chronicle. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Hornkuh: Chronicle → Open Letter to the Federal Council Johann Schneider-Ammann. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Official Bulletin. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Official Bulletin. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Horny Cow: Chronicle. IG Hornkuh, accessed on December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Amir Ali: Everything for the cow. In: Surprise . No. 368, 2016, p. 9 (PDF; 1.4 MB).
- ↑ The Swiss Federal Chancellery: Federal People's Initiative “For the dignity of farm animals (Horned Cow Initiative)”. In: https://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis456.html . The Swiss Federal Chancellery, April 12, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Initiator Capaul: "People dehorn the national animal of Switzerland". bernerzeitung.ch , accessed on November 25, 2018 .