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Azienda Agricola, Capra Contenta, Cresmino, CH-6654 Cavigliano

Our thoughts regarding slaughter

The attention for the life and the needs of the animals is for us a completely important and central basic adjustment to our work. But as farmers we must live also with death and the necessity for the slaughtering. And it became for us also a stimmiger part of the whole one.
We can keep not all lambs, otherwise the herd would grow immediately like if there was an explotion of goats, since by good care many natural causes of death are switched off. We hold pigs, because they use the cheese whey, which became otherwise wasted and the environmental impact. We must slaughter also animals from the herd of goat, which give hardly any milk, because we must live of the money we earn with the products made of the milk. That particularly is hard for us, since we have to our goats a very emotional and close relationship.
What we can do, transport and the slaughtering for the animals is to be arranged as stress-free as possible and to be accompanied it up to the conclusion. That is our responsibility. Our animals have a good life. But they can die not all at age weakness. Those are the laws of the agriculture and the nutrition by animal products such as milk, cheese, meat and eggs.
The attention for the life must be the center of attention thereby however. And here also the consumer has responsibility.


Die Achtung vor dem Leben muss beim Schlachten immer im Vordergrund stehen. Und hier hat auch der Verbraucher Verantwortung.