Sunday, 14. april is the day when families across the country get the opportunity to experience the Danish eco-cows are put on grass after a whole winter in the barn to ‘Økodag 2019’.
Organic Milk call as also the event of ’the danes ‘party’, which reportedly attracts over 200,000 danes.
It is, however, not all who see the event as an occasion to celebrate the onset of spring.
the activist group Vegan Change has called for protests across the country against the ‘markedsføringsstuntet Økodag, as a leader well-intentioned consumers and their children behind the light’.
It writes the in a pressemedelelse.
One of the vegans, there is today will be to find in the protest, is dyrerettighedsaktivist from the Vegan Change Ulrik Myrtue.
– The people who come today, will the animals the best. We are here to show them that there is another way. You can easily live a plant based, where you do not need to use animals as products, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
He emphasizes at the same time that we the people have no need to drink milk:
– We need to have milk from our mother, and no other. It is an unnecessary product that harms our environment.
– One thing is how you choose to live – why should mix you, how others live?
– We mix os, because the other blends in the animal’s life. We exploit animals as machines. Dairy cows are made to hakkebøffer as a thank you for the work, says dyrerettighedsaktivisten.
– We mix the us is not in what you eat but who you eat.
At the national Organic Association, believe that there is a markedsføringsstunt.
– the day when The cows come to pasture, goes back for many years. The only thing we have done is to open the doors and offer to consumers also can be with, says Paul Holmbeck, the political director of Organic Denmark, TV2.
He believes that the day can be to give the danes a better understanding of organic farming.
– This is 200,000 people that come out and get in contact with and more empathy for the animals the day, which we think is very positive. It helps to strengthen consumer interest in animal welfare, says the director for TV2.
nearly 500 people have shown interest in the protest against the ‘Cows’ spring party’ on Facebook.
the event takes on four different farms in the country.
Økodag 2019 will be organized by Organic Denmark in cooperation with the dairies of Arla, Thise, Naturmælk, Øllingegaard, Jim, Løgismose and Hansen’s Dairy and is going on all over the country from 10 to 14 on Sunday.
the Cows are being closed out at 12:00.
Extra Magazine follows the case.
