Provieh
| PROVIEH - Association against cruel animal husbandry e. V. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1973 |
| founder | Olga Bartling and Margarete Bartling (deceased) |
| Seat |
Kiel , Germany
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| motto | respect animals live |
| main emphasis | Animal protection |
| Action space | worldwide |
| people | Sievert Lorenzen (CEO) |
| Members | 12,000 (2014) |
| Website | www.provieh.de |
Provieh - Association against cruel animal husbandry e. V. ( spelling : PROVIEH ) is a registered association based in Kiel . According to its own information, it is the oldest and largest animal welfare association for species-appropriate livestock husbandry in Germany and campaigns against industrial intensive animal husbandry .
Club history
On June 15, 1973, the sisters Margarete Bartling, a former chief agricultural officer in the Ministry of Agriculture in Schleswig-Holstein , and Olga Bartling, then head of the Heikendorfer Adult Education Center, founded the Association against animal-torturing mass animal husbandry (VgtM) e. V. in Heikendorf . According to Taz , this makes it the oldest association in Germany that campaigns for the rights of farm animals.
On December 3, 1992, the Minister for Nature, Environment and Regional Development of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Berndt Heydemann , awarded the VgtM e. V. the environmental award of the Minister for Nature, Environment and Regional Development for exemplary work in the fields of nature and the environment. In 1993, the Bartling sisters were awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in recognition of their services to the general good . In 2003 the association against cruel animal husbandry e. V. celebrated its 30th anniversary and was given the suffix PROVIEH .
2016 PROVIEH eV received the right of collective action . This enables the association to have "animal welfare-relevant decisions reviewed by the authorities".
Club organization
The federal office is in Kiel. The board of the association works on a voluntary basis. The association is financed from membership fees, donations and bequests. He has been a member of the German Donation Council since 1999 .
Goals and Activities
The association sees itself as a scientifically oriented professional association. He calls for all farm animals to be housed in a manner that is appropriate to their species, needs and behavior, as well as avoiding pain and suffering . He tries to enforce this through consumer education, protest letters, petitions, statements and suggestions for changes to guidelines and laws. Right from the start, keeping chickens appropriate to the species was a central issue. The association initiated petions and expert opinions, which ultimately contributed to the fact that caging of laying hens was banned. Provieh counts the Animal Welfare Initiative project as a success in the club's history , which also brought about a rapprochement with agricultural companies. According to Marco Rimkus, professor at the University of Emden / Leer , Provieh connects the "aspect of animal welfare with the importance of animal husbandry for the human organism". The members of the association undertake to counteract a development that has led to the ruthless exploitation of livestock as a 'means of production' , which is questionable in terms of healthy nutrition for the population .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Esther Geisslinger: The quiet lawyers of the cage hens . In: Taz, July 8, 2006
- ^ A b Marita Vollborn, Vlad D. Georgescu: ProVieh - VgtM ev (Association against animal cruel mass animal husbandry) , in: this: Food-Mafia , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50122-2 , p. 281
- ^ "Animal welfare organization PROVIEH receives right to collective action", in: Agrarheute.com, April 4, 2016
- ^ A b c Marita Vollborn, Vlad D. Georgescu: ProVieh - VgtM ev (Association against animal torture mass animal husbandry) , in: dies .: Food-Mafia , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50122-2 , pp. 280-283
- ↑ Marco Rimkus: World nutrition, livestock protection and food safety , Logos Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8325-3893-4 , p. 46