Legal and social requirements make it difficult to raise animals in the region. Meat consumption is also declining, but not to the same extent as meat production.
The region produces less and less meat. The number of farms that raise cattle and pigs has been declining continuously for years. Farmers especially blame legal requirements, but also social changes. Pig farmers are downright desperate. They demand more support from politicians – and they formulate it in a letter of fire.
Rckblick
Data on meat production collected by the State Statistics Institute dates back to 1979. At that time, statisticians in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district counted 2,633 cattle farms. …