Animal in focus

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Animal in focus
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founding 2009
founder Niklaus Bartlome, Gabrielle Christen, Roger Furrer, Klaus Petrus, Martina Späni
Seat Bern
main emphasis Animal rights , anti-speciesism , veganism
method Enlightenment , research .
Action space Switzerland
Website www.tier-im-fokus.ch

Animal in focus (officially tier-im-fokus.ch , often just tif ) is a Swiss animal rights organization.

organization

The organization was founded in 2009 as a non-profit association based in Bern and is financed through membership fees and donations. It takes an anti-speciesist position, which means that it rejects any discrimination and exploitation of sentient beings. She advocates the inalienable rights of all animals, but focuses on farm animals .

activity

In addition to supporting sanctuaries, the organization encourages various activities to fundamentally question the human way of dealing with animals and to promote vegan alternatives to animal production.

Campaigns

In 2014, the association published the “Pig Report”, in which current images from ten Swiss pig farms in the cantons of Lucerne, Bern, Vaud and Friborg were published. The pig report led to several political advances at regional and national level. In January 2015, the organization showed excerpts from the pig report it published in autumn 2014 on a big screen in front of the Bundeshaus in Bern. Many grievances were also documented in the area of poultry production . Tier in Focus was represented at the BEA for the third time in 2019 with its own stand .

Animal rights demonstration by Tier im Fokus in Bern 2014

In 2015, the organization, together with animal welfare associations and political parties, held the referendum against the expansion of the animal experiment laboratory at the University of Bern , which came about in the summer of 2015. In 2015, she also launched a petition against state-subsidized meat advertising.

In the area of poultry production , Tier im Fokus documented dead and rotten chickens in a stable from Frifag , the number three in Switzerland.

In 2018 the campaign “The big chicken swindle” made headlines, the recordings of which documented high mortality among broiler chickens. The Foundation for the Animal in Law then submitted various complaints for multiple animal cruelty. The documented farms are formally classified as "particularly animal-friendly stables" (BTS), a state animal welfare program that is financed with taxpayers' money. According to a representative survey by gfs.zürich , the documented conditions contradicted the expectations of the population. Tier im Fokus later filed a complaint with the Unfairness Commission against an unfair chicken advertisement from Proviande and was partially right.

In 2019, the organization unveiled cruelty to animals when loading pigs.

Street actions

The organization carries out street actions against image and advertising campaigns of the animal industry - specifically about Proviande and Swissmilk - judge. An action in which the organization pretended to sell dog meat attracted international attention ; in fact, they were vegan sausages. In 2014 and 2015, Tier im Fokus organized a demonstration with the core demand that all slaughterhouses be closed . Other larger demos pleaded for an “end of speciesism ” in 2016 and for the “abolition of livestock farming” in 2017/18.

Promote veganism

The organization believes that any animal suffering is unnecessary if it can be avoided or if alternatives are available. One of these alternatives in the field of nutrition is veganism . Accordingly, part of the organization's activities consists in promoting and promoting the vegan way of life through campaigns such as regular public get-togethers or vegan barbecues - “Grilling Without Killing” - in public places.

Tier im Fokus launched the first nationwide poster campaign in Switzerland in 2018, which called for a vegan lifestyle with a vegan challenge. According to its own information, over 1000 people took part.

In 2019 Tier im Fokus published the “Vegan Barometer 2019”, with 2,444 participants the largest survey to date on the vegan lifestyle in Switzerland. The survey revolved around motives, health, political attitudes and vegan life in Switzerland.

  • Demonstration on the "closing of all slaughterhouses" by Tier im Fokus (summer 2015)

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  • Carcass action

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Albrecht: Our pigs are so poor! In: look . August 21, 2014, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  2. ^ Website of the association on the research.
  3. ↑ Interpellation 14.3822 “ Pig Report: What Consequences? »In the National Council of Bastien Girod , September 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Interpellation 168-2014 “ Pig Report: Clarification of grievances ” in the Bernese Grand Council by Michel Rudin , September 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Motion 274-2014 «Improving animal welfare » in the Bernese Grand Council by Michel Rudin and Sabine Kronenberg on November 25, 2014. Withdrawn on June 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Daniel Salzmann: Vegans make people mobile. In: Swiss farmer . January 12, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Animal in focus: The big chicken vertigo. In: hühner-schwindel.ch. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Vegan Organization shows shock pictures from Swiss stables. In: nau.ch . May 5, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 .
  9. ^ Sophie Reinhardt: Animal testing laboratory is now a political issue. In: 20 minutes . January 30, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  10. ^ Christian Zellweger / Swiss Dispatch Agency : Referendum against new laboratory building apparently successful. In: The Bund . May 11, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Radio 3fach from January 29, 2015: Petition: »No tax millions for Proviande«
  12. ^ Daniel Waldmeier: " Happy Swiss chickens are a fairy tale ". In: 20 minutes . February 22, 2016, accessed January 29, 2020.
  13. ↑ Animal in focus: The big chicken vertigo . In: hühner-schwindel.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  14. ↑ Marcel Niedermann: Death is part of business . In: Swiss radio and television . January 30, 2018, last accessed January 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ Daniel Waldmeier: Animal rights activists report chicken farmers . February 2, 2018. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  16. ↑ Stefan Häne: misdirection, state sponsored . In: Tages-Anzeiger. November 5, 2018, last accessed January 29, 2020.
  17. ↑ Stefan Häne: Meat industry is allowed to advertise with chicken idyll . August 6, 2018. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  18. ↑ Animal in focus: pig transport . In: schwine-transport.ch. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  19. ↑ Thomas Vogel: Animals as a commodity: How a farmer abuses his animals . In: Swiss radio and television. October 16, 2019, last accessed January 29, 2020.
  20. ↑ Martin Ulrich in Taxi - Magazine for Social Affairs and Culture No. 115 Animal in Focus (TIF)
  21. ↑ Neue Luzerner Zeitung of April 25, 2014: Protest against “Milk Day” in Lucerne
  22. ↑ 20 minutes from March 16, 2015: Animal rights activists shock with sausage made from dog meat
  23. ↑ Focus Online of March 21, 2015: Shock campaign by animal rights organization
  24. ↑ Huffington Post of March 16, 2015 Swiss animal rights activists “Animal in focus” shock with video: People try meat and think it comes from dogs
  25. ↑ Berner Zeitung of July 12, 2014: 500 people are calling for “all slaughterhouses to be closed” .
  26. ↑ Swiss dispatch agency: 600 people are calling for all slaughterhouses to be closed. In: Berner Zeitung. July 11, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  27. ↑ SDA : " Human slaughter is a fairy tale" - animal rights activists in Bern want to close slaughterhouses . In: Watson . August 6, 2016, last accessed January 29, 2020.
  28. ↑ SDA: Hundreds demonstrate in Bern for the abolition of livestock farming . July 1, 2017. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  29. ↑ SDA: Abolition of livestock farming is called for: demo in Bern . June 29, 2019. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  30. ↑ Berner Zeitung of October 3, 2015: Vegans at the regulars table
  31. ↑ The Bund of July 8, 2013: Vegan Protest on a Small Flame
  32. ↑ Animal in focus: huge success with Vegan Challenge . March 15, 2019. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  33. ↑ 20 minutes: Every second vegan approves of animal liberation . August 21, 2019. Last accessed January 29, 2020.
  34. ↑ Animal in focus: This is what makes vegans tick . August 21, 2019. Last accessed January 29, 2020.