What happens to the many breeding animals that are exported from Germany to the world? They land – for example – in Qatar – by plane.
Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world, but relies on imports for food. Now the little emirate wants to be self-sufficient. No matter what it costs. Especially for the animals!
On a mega-dairy farm with 14,000 cows. Soon it will be 20,000. A total of 30 luxury stables will be built!!
“This is pretty much the last place in the world where you would build a dairy farm,” says Peter Weltevreden.
He must know, because Weltevreden is the boss of Baladna, the most extraordinary cow stall in the world. The company is preparing to provide the desert state of Qatar with milk and dairy products.
The desire for self-sufficiency has a serious background: Saudi Arabia and the neighboring Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi – traditionally Qatar’s major trading partners – accuse the Qatari of supporting terrorism and seeking proximity to Shiite Iran. In mid-2017, Saudi Arabia closed the border and cut the emirate off its traditional supply routes. Other countries in the Sunni-Arab world joined the boycott.
Procuring food has suddenly become a national challenge for the richest country in the world.
Livestock at 50 degrees outside temperature sounds bizarre. But farms like Baladna are nothing new in the Middle East. Everything is imported, including the professionals. Water is recycled. The stables be cooled.
“The special tunnel ventilation system has been specially designed for us,” says Ramez Al-Khayyat, owner of Baldana Farm, “as well as the water mist cooling system that controls the climate – something that is nowhere else in the world.” The air conditioning provides 25 degrees, fans exude a slight breeze in the halls.
“The animals will be better off here than in Europe”, so his analysis.
Edmund Haferbeck, agricultural expert of the animal protection organization PETA, describes the cow connection as “completely wrong and meaningless”.
For one thing, the animals would have been carted to the airports through half of Europe; on the other hand, Qatar has neither the know-how for cattle breeding nor the climatic and holding possibilities.
For more…at: https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2019/09/27/qatar-high-tech-stables/
My comment: An end to the blockade is not in sight. But instead of the planned isolation, it seems to bring Qatar economic reforms.
Although Qatar is small, has become extremely rich through the trade in liquefied gas from the Gulf. With the import of cows Qatar wants to prove (in addition to other political aspects) that the country can provide itself.
A cow in a climate environment under 30 degrees requires 100 liters of water per day. We can imagine how many liters of water need 25,000 cows in a 50 degree desert.
These cows in these mega stables will almost certainly never put a hoof in the desert in their life because cows should get as little upset as possible to give them as much milk as possible.
They will do what cows all over the world and in any farm do: eat, sleep, calve, give milk.
Heat, embers and gerbils are a potential source of excitement. Everything is obviously kept sterile and eerie, as if they were not live beings.
The animals in the factories here in Europe are not better, they are even worse.
But the air-conditioned mega stables with suffering animals in the middle of nowhere are no progress in the factories of slavery.
“It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands…but empty cages, the total eradication of these barbarous practices” (Tom Regan)
My best regards to all, Venus
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