Team with Nina, Inês and Alisha
Here are our drafted survey questions:
1. Have you heard of CO2 emissions before?
2. What do you understand under the term CO2 emissions? (Answer also possible in german)
3. Do you think the current laws and regulations in Switzerland about CO2 emissions are strict enough?
4. Do you think the different countries are doing enough to solve this global problem?
5. Who do you think is responsible for solving the problem of CO2 emissions? More...
Our goal for today is to finish up our survey and make a test run with our classmates.
We prepared a survey for our project and would like to test it before publishing.
We would be grateful if you answered our questions. You can quickly click on "survey".
Thanks in advance!
Luana, Alicia, Leonie
As we mentioned we visited a farm of a friend on 15.03.2023.
Here are the photos we took:
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The following informations we got from wikipedia and several online websites and from the interviews.
Husbandry and production
Animal-friendly husbandry and care of farm animals form the basis for a good animal health. It is the basis for efficient agriculture and the production of safe food for us humans. Livestock farming is the first link in the production chain of animal food. A central task of all farmers is to maintain the health of their animals and to prevent diseases. [1]
Livestock facilities
Livestock facilities are periodically checked for animal welfare regulations. With animal-friendly barn equipment you avoid damage and illnesses and promote the well-being of the animals. Therefore, the Animal Welfare Act stipulates that mass-produced barn equipment and housing systems require offical approval. [1]
Factory farming initiative (Massentierhaltungsinitative)
On 25.09.2022 the Swiss voters voted on the factory farming initiative (Massentierhaltungsinitiative). The initiative was rejected with 63 percent. The initative wanted to include the protection of the dignity of farm animals such as chickens or pigs in the constitution. It also wanted to ban factory farming. [2]
Transport
A maximum time of 8 hours is permitted for livestock transports within Switzerland. The travel time from the loading area is under 6 hours. Animals may only be transported if it can be expected that they will survive the transport without damage. The driving style must protect the animals. [3]
Slaughtering and killing of animals
If the treatment of sick or injured animals is futile or only possible with great pain, they should be killed to limit the suffering. The chosen method of killing must also lead to the certain death of the animal. [4]
Hunger for meat
"Meat is the Swiss' favorite vegetable." (Fleisch ist des Schweizers liebstes Gemüse). In 2021, a total of 494'614 tons of slaughtered meat was produced. Pork (Schweinefleisch) accounted for around 230'000 tons, beef (Rindfleisch) almost 120'000 tons and poultry (Geflügelfleisch) a good 112'000 tons. Meat production costs 2.9 billion Swiss francs. The annual meat consumption of a person of the Swiss population is 51.82 kilograms.
The Swiss population's need for meat cannot be covered by home production. We are dependent on importing meat from abroad. [5]
Media outlets are powerful tools that can be used to promote projects and ideas. Our wind power project is a perfect example of a project that can benefit from the use of various media outlets.
Social media is a powerful tool that can reach a large number of people in a short amount of time. By using social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, we can create posts, share images, and videos about our wind power project. We can also use hashtags.
Newspapers are a great way to reach people locally who may not be active on social media. By writing an article about our wind power project and submitting it to local newspapers, we can get our message out to a wider (maybe even elderly) audience.
We will also write an article about our wind power project and post it on dontwastemyenergy.
We will conduct an interview with different people, record it and write an article about it.
We’re also going to produce a video which explains how a wind turbine works.
From Luisa and Belinda
Media we are going to use:
- We are going to take photos of our plastic collection (bottles) while we are collecting it. We have planned to take a photo everyday to capture our progress and then put it together into a short film (iMovie on Luana‘s MacBook) to visualise it.
- We‘ll make a survey on Kobo Toolbox and have people answering our questions. We‘ll promote the survey on the instagram account of don‘t waste my energy and our personal instagram accounts. But before we do that, we‘re going to do a test run with our class. After people have answered the survey we want to analyse the data and write a text about it as well as visualising the data in different diagrams (Excel).
We already used a survey tool and did a few interviews per E-Mail and we also used the platform instagram. We decided to do our interviews in written form and not by audio because they could answer the question with time and consider their answers and maybe also rewrite them.
We could image to record an audio as an additional medium.
In the future we will add more pictures to visualize our project with the animals and the farms.
We could refer to newspaper articles that have already been created by organisations and journalists.
In the end we will write an article about our animal welfare project and post it on dontwastemyenergy.ch.
From 22.03. until 25.03.2023 we did an online survey on umfrageonline.ch. 100 selected people took part in this survey. Of the 100 respondents, 60 were under 20, 20 were between 20 and 30 and the remaining 20 are over 30 years old. 9 of the respondents eat vegetarian and the rest eats also meat.
The first question was, how important animal welfare is to them in relation to the food they consume. 69 % pay attention to special labels and 31 % just buy something.
The following question was, if they are willing to spend more money on animal products for the welfare of animals. They answered yes with 85 % and the rest isn't willing to spend more money on animal products.
Another question was that they compare the Swiss livestock farming to the EU and USA. The surveyed think that the Swiss livestock farming is with 76 % better than the EU and with 80 % better than the USA. 5 % think that the Swiss livestock farming is as well as the EU and USA. Nobody thinks that it is worse than the EU or USA.
The fourth question was, if they think that animal welfare in Switzerland can still be improved. And of course 84 % think that this is possible but 16 % also think that it's enough.
The next question was, how many kilograms of meat do they think they consume per year. 12 % think that they consume more than 100 kg. 15 % think that they consume between 70 - 99 kg. 34 % think that they consume between 50 - 70 kg and 39 % think that they consume less than 50 kg.
And last but not least we asked them, if they think that the demand for meat can fully be covered by domestic production. 26 % answered that with a Yes and 74 % with a No.