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.