Couldn’t be wurst
He was speaking in the country that invented the Bratwurst and the Frankfurter, so the Archbishop of Berlin, Heiner Koch, should not have been surprised when his comments attacking the meat industry provoked ire among German farmers.
“We cannot close our eyes to the catastrophic conditions in the large animal factories,” Koch told rbb-Radio (Radio Berlin) at the opening of the “Green Week” Agricultural Fair in Berlin. “Pig fatteners treat animals like conveyor-belt products and slaughter them under unspeakable conditions,” he added.
Peter Bleser, from the Ministry of Agriculture, said that Koch’s portrayal of farmers as “animal torturers” had deeply hurt many farmers who were very attached to their animals. Michael Lohse, a spokesman for the German Farmers’ Association, was “disappointed in and furious with” Koch.
01 February 2017, The Tablet
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