The video shows dying and decomposing animals. Animals would live “ankle-deep” in “faecal lakes”. The operation in the St. Pölten-Land district was reported.
The association once morest animal factories (VGT) locates grievances in one fattening farm in the district of St. Pölten-Land. Video released on Tuesday shows dying sheep, cattle in feces, animals decomposing in the barn and bodies in bins in front of the building. The VGT has filed a complaint with the St. Pölten district authority. In a broadcast on the occasion of a protest rally in front of the company, clarification and a ban on keeping animals were demanded.
According to the broadcast, more than 1,000 lambs, sheep, kids, goats and cattle are kept on the farm. “The conditions are abominable, the animal suffering is immense,” said the VGT. The legally banned fully slatted floor housing of lambs and cattle, which had to “live, lie and sleep in ankle-deep faecal lakes of excrement and urine”, was criticized. Already in 2013, the VGT filed a complaint once morest the company and demanded a ban on keeping animals.
SPÖ animal protection spokesman Dietmar Keck was appalled by the conditions in the company and demanded in a broadcast: “The cruelty to animals must have immediate criminal consequences, the animals must be saved.” Animal carcass recycling would have to sound the alarm and the company would have to be checked if it disposed of an above-average amount, according to the National Council member’s proposal.
(APA/dpa)
