Hello everyone. At the moment, it almost seems as if meat is the most important food. No TV commercial from the big retailers is without meat. You're all over the place with "original" commercials .... too bad, but henu, that's not why I'm writing. Another story went viral on social media yesterday: The poor pigs at Naturaplan are really poor pigs: In the dark, no daylight, no bedding, no space - a far cry from the happy sows in the adverts. Farming methods as we might know them from the EU. The Naturaplan piglets with a blue sticker in their ear - crammed in with the other poor creatures. And all of this in the beautiful Thurgau. Doesn't that make any halfway emphatic consumer feel like they've been taken for a ride? I would now like to know whether you have the production chain under control for your organic and sustainability labels? Do you check the conditions regularly (and unannounced on site?) I look forward to your answer.
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Hello @Toffie & @Bodenseeknusperli (for the sake of simplicity, reply to both of you straight away)
We are very pleased that you are active on Migipedia and are concerned about animal welfare. You can find the "Naturaplan" label at our competitor Coop, which is why we cannot comment on it. :-)
At Migros, we sell organic meat under the Migros-Bio label. Our pork comes almost exclusively from farms in Switzerland that produce according to the strict Bio Suisse (Bud) guidelines.
On Bio Suisse farms, pigs are kept in groups and fed on organic feed. The animals have sufficient space in the stalls and the lying areas must be littered. They also have daily access to the outdoors and can spend time in daylight and fresh air. If you would like to know more about this, here is the link to the Bio Suisse Standards: http://www.bioaktuell.ch/fileadmin/documents/ba/bioregelwerk-2017/deutsch/bs_all_d/rili_d.pdf
Compliance with the Bio Suisse standards is regularly checked by state-recognized, independent certification bodies such as bio.inspecta AG. An organic pig producer only receives a Bio Suisse certificate if all requirements are met. Such organic audits are announced, and the certification bodies also carry out unannounced inspections.
Thanks to this strict control and certification system along the entire value chain, organic products can be traced without any gaps. This means that even with Migros organic pork, we know where the animals come from.
We wish you both a great weekend, Zuzanna
Hello Zuzanna.
Thank you for your prompt and detailed reply. If "your" organic animals are really treated as described in the attached guidelines, then all would be right with the world. The mistrust is simply huge - hardly a day goes by without something coming to light somewhere where things unfortunately look very different under the carpet than they do on the carpet.
I hope that in this case Migros is really more serious than its competitors.
Best regards
Marianne