Intensivtierhaltung: Landwirtschaftliche Positionierungen im Spannungsfeld von OEkologie, OEkonomie und Gesellschaft

Intensive animal husbandry and the way in which food is produced have increasingly become the focus of social attention in recent years in view of ecological, climatic and animal-ethical contexts. In inverse proportion to the decline in the number of farms and employees on farms in rural areas, the profession of farmer has become a media-present and culturally charged projection surface. Barbara Wittmann’s study focuses on the farmers themselves and analyzes and contextualizes their positions on society, economic, ecological and animal-ethical problem complexes. It shows that our image of conventional production has to be thought of in a much more complex and less normative way.