Animal rights activists from the "Animal Rebellion" group are mobilizing against factory farming and have blocked the access road to the Sachsenmilch dairy owned by the Theo Müller Group. The company is partly responsible for millions of animal suffering, said a spokeswoman for the group. Sachsenmilch obtains and processes milk from so-called year-round tethered husbandry. In this form of animal husbandry, the cow is chained up in one place in the barn for its entire life and cannot even turn around.
Suppliers cannot deliver milk
The Görlitz police department put the number of demonstrators at 20 to 30, while "Animal Rebellion" spoke of around 50 to 60 activists. According to the police, no supplier was initially able to reach the company on Friday morning. However, the group had left a rescue lane open. The protest had not been registered.
Sachsenmilch Leppersdorf GmbH in Leppersdorf (Bautzen district) has around 3,000 employees and describes itself as one of the most modern milk processing plants in Europe. Products such as milk, butter, yogurt and cheese are made from the milk supplied - around 1.7 billion kilograms a year, according to the company.
According to Animal Rebellion, the company "exemplifies a system of animal exploitation and concentration of power". "In our view, this site must be transferred to public or cooperative ownership and the production capacities consistently converted to plant-based, sustainable products," it said. "Animal Rebellion" is a nationally organized group.
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