2023-09-29 22:02:00
Many children get their lunch in following-school care, school or kindergarten. From now on you can find out where some of the ingredients come from. And that’s really important.
Do you attend following-school care or following-school care at your school? You might also get lunch there. Have you ever wondered where the ingredients for this come from? This is more important than you might think.
Since this September, i.e. since this school year, there has been a new law regarding this in Austria. This law says that kitchens that cook for the “community” must list where certain ingredients come from. Such a community can be a kindergarten, a school or even an following-school care center. And those responsible have so far been able to choose the courts there. But it didn’t say where the ingredients in the dishes come from. This is different now: There is an “obligation to label the origin” for meat, milk and eggs. But why should you care where the pig from which your schnitzel comes comes from, or where the hen and cows from which the eggs and milk for your Kaiserschmarrn come live? Because there are big differences between the farming conditions in different countries. By law, a chicken has the right to more space in Austria than in any other EU country. There is even more space in the houses of domestic turkeys. As in Austria, turkeys are only doing so in Sweden and Switzerland.
“When you eat a food, you also decide on everything that lies behind it,” says Maria Fanninger from the Land Creates Life association. “So you have a say in how animals, people and the environment are treated during production.” For example, how the animal lived, what food it was given and how everything was checked. But also what the working conditions are like for the people who produce the food.
In the case of poultry, the additional space in the house costs more money. The price for turkey and chicken meat from Austria is higher than that for meat from abroad. But it pays off.
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