We are fed up

We have had enough! is a movement of environmental, nature and animal protection organizations against factory farming and for agricultural change. The largest demonstration since 2011 is a year in January as a protest event at the Green Week in Berlin.

The demonstrations are jointly supported by 45 organizations. These include, among others: Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany, Family Farmers, Naturschutzbund Germany, Bread for the World, Demeter, Misereor, Oxfam. 30 more organizations are cited as supporters. The joint website of the organizer is a project of the Campaign My agriculture.

Justification of the organizers for the demonstrations

Since the demonstrations is supported by a broad coalition of various organizations, including the demands of the demonstrators are diversified. In general, the protest is directed against the consequences of " agro-industrial mass production for farmers, consumers, animals and the environment. "

As an occasion for demonstrating various reasons are given. The organizers state that worldwide more than 840 million people go hungry every year include more than 10,000 farms that for agricultural imports to Germany 18 million hectares of arable land must be managed abroad that 40 million new mast places for hens and 2, 5 million fattening places are planned for pigs in Germany that antibiotic resistance from animal fattening threaten the health, that the free trade agreement between the EU and the U.S. could open the genetic engineering the doors that three multinational companies control over 50 % of the seed trade worldwide and that each year one-third of bee colonies in Europe and the United States dies.

Some derived from essential requirements of operators are:

  • Right to food worldwide
  • Healthy and affordable food for all
  • Fair prices and market rules for farmers
  • Animal welfare without antibiotic abuse
  • Freedom for seed diversity
  • Bee and environmentally friendly agriculture
  • Promotion of regional forage production
  • Access to land for all the world

Previous demonstrations

2011

Berlin: January 22, 2011, several thousand people demonstrated ( 15,000 participants, police records, 20,000 according to the organizers ) for a reform of the agricultural policy, a move away from industrial agriculture and better consumer protection. The demonstration was held under the motto " We are tired of it - no to genetic engineering, animal factories and dumping exports ."

2012

Berlin: on January 21, 2012 in Berlin again demonstrated several thousand people. The organizers spoke of a total of 23,000 participants. The police did not provide any official figures, but unofficially confirmed that there were several thousand participants. The demonstration coincided with a summit of agriculture ministers from 70 countries.

Hanover: 2000 people demonstrated after matching to the police and the organizer under the motto " We are tired of it! Citizens and farmers for a new, fair agricultural policies in Lower Saxony " in November in Hannover.

2013

Berlin: On 19 January 2013, thousands of people demanded ( 25,000 participants according to the organizers, the police did not provide data ) with the motto " We are tired of it! Good food. Good agriculture. Now! " Fundamental reforms in agricultural policy. The demonstration took place at a meeting of 80 agriculture ministers in parallel. According to BUND and NABU the protest of 70 tractors was accompanied.

Munich: 8,000 people demonstrated According to the organizers and the police on July 13, 2013 in Munich under the motto "I'm tired of hams ."

Wietze: On August 31, 2013 demonstrated according to the organizers, 7,000 people and according to the police about 6,500 people against the largest poultry slaughterhouse in Europe, in Lower Saxony Wietze. The slaughterhouse was there enclosed by a chain of people. The demonstrators called for a fundamental change in agriculture. The event was held under the motto " We are tired of agribusiness! " Instead. Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer attended the event.

2014

The campaign for the demonstration began on 15 January with the action " We let the pig out ... front of the Chancellery in Berlin! " In which a herd of protest experienced Schwäbisch -Hall - range pigs was driven before the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. On January 18, 2014 was the 4th We're tired! - Demonstration under the slogan. " We are tired of agribusiness! Good food. Good agriculture. For All! " instead, had invoked a wide range of organizations, clubs, parties, producers and companies as vehicles to the. According to the organizers, 30,000 people responded to the call.

Support the demo "We have had enough! "

2014

  • Agricultural Alliance Bavaria
  • Action 3 World Saar e.V.
  • Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our contemporaries
  • ALSO e.V.
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft eV scale agriculture and Young AbL
  • ARC 2020 Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020
  • Attac
  • Community farming producers Schwäbisch Hall
  • Farms instead of factory farming
  • Farms instead of factory farming country Network Lower Saxony
  • Organic
  • BI Wietze citizens' initiative Wietze eV for the preservation of our Aller-Leine Valley (see also poultry slaughterhouse Wietze )
  • Bread for the World
  • Alliance for GMO-free agriculture Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg
  • Association for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany
  • BUNDjugend
  • Campact e.V.
  • Demeter e.V.
  • German vocational and employment Beekeepers Association
  • German Naturschutzring
  • German Animal Welfare Association e.V.
  • Promotion of Organic Farming Berlin Brandenburg eV
  • Forum on Environment & Development
  • Community of European Buckfast beekeepers e.V.
  • GMO-free Europe eV (see GMO-free zone)
  • GMO-free regions in Germany
  • GLS e.V. Foundation on Future Farming
  • IG replica
  • INKOTA network
  • Mellifera
  • Misereor
  • NABU - Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Germany e.V.
  • Naturland - Association for Organic Farming
  • Neuland e.V.
  • Oxfam Germany e.V.
  • Ecological Medical Association e.V.
  • Save Our Seeds Foundation on Future Farming
  • Slow Food Germany e.V.
  • Slow Food Youth Germany e.V.
  • Munich Environmental Institute e.V.
  • Association against animal cruelty to factory farming eV
  • World Animal Society e.V.
  • WWOOF e.V.

Supporters of the demo "We have had enough! "

2014

  • Action Alliance agricultural change (see also agricultural policy )
  • Action for World Solidarity e.V.
  • Andechs
  • Nursery plant lust organic fruit trees in historic & proven varieties
  • Berlin Water Table
  • BI Flotwedel citizens' initiative Flotwedel for a respectful treatment of animals
  • Biohaus Bochum
  • Bionade
  • Biolandhof Apfelbacher
  • Alliance campaign against land grabbing young agriculture in East Germany
  • Alliance against abuse of animals e.V.
  • The pulse
  • Left Party in the Bundestag
  • Demeter e.V. in the north Peasant Society
  • German Environmental Foundation
  • Ecovillage e.V.
  • Flail e.V.
  • EcoMujer e.V. Women and the Environment
  • Freedom for the variety!
  • Gaea e.V. - Federation of Organic Agriculture
  • Good Wulfsdorf
  • Genial GM-free initiative for an alternative agriculture, only high school group the Conservation Youth ( NAJU ) in Brandenburg
  • GMO-free - Fütterung.de
  • GMO-free region south Barnim
  • Enjoyment Community townspeople and peasants
  • Green Jobs
  • Green Youth Federal Association
  • Green Youth Dresden
  • GREEN LEAGUE eV Network Ecological movements
  • Manor Stellshagen
  • Hinkelstein pressure Socialist GmbH
  • Courtyard at an angle Thoms village ( demeter )
  • Hofgut Storzeln
  • MP Bärbel Höhn, Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group
  • MdA Philipp Magalski, Pirate Party
  • Bi - Kriebstein, citizens against swine factories!
  • Tree of Life
  • MarkthalleIX
  • Lammsbräu
  • Country pork
  • Naturata AG ( demeter )
  • Network Flowering landscape e.V.
  • MP Friedrich East Dorff, Alliance '90 / The Greens Bundestag parliamentary group
  • PAN Germany Pesticide Action Network e.V.
  • Party human environment animal protection
  • Solidary Agriculture
  • Spielberger mill ( demeter )
  • Tagwerk Ökoservice GmbH
  • VIVANI chocolate
  • WEED
  • World Economy, Ecology & Development
  • Witzenhäuser agricultural students, farmers and gardeners for GMO-free agriculture
  • Civil Courage, free peasants and citizens AG - Against Genetic Engineering
  • Zwergenwiese Natural Food

Events in Amsterdam

Inspired by the protests in Berlin found in 2012 and 2013 in Amsterdam demonstrations under the slogan "we zijn het MEGA zat " instead. This can be both "We have MEGA tired " translate as well with " We are tired of the MEGA ". This word play rejecting the demonstrators from getting larger stables and an intensification in livestock farming should be noted. The event is supported by a number of Dutch organizations and parties ( PvDA, SP, Partij voor de Dieren ) organized and supported. The Dutch events are independent of the events in Germany.

Austria

In March 2012, also in Austria organizations in the areas of environment, agriculture and social affairs as a platform "We have had enough! " Come together to act together for a new agri-food policy.

In September 2012, a " Rural protest picnic " was organized as the final event of the "Good Food March" in Votivpark in Vienna.

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