Swiss Referendum Rejects Ban on Intensive Livestock Farming

Last week in Switzerland, a referendum was distributed to the citizens of the country to know their opinion on the banning of intensive livestock farming. Indeed, if the results had been favorable, many farms would have been forced to change their production habits, obliging them, for example, to establish a minimum time of exposure of the animals to the outside world (JF). This new law proposal entitled "Right to Dignity" was rejected by the majority of the population. However, one must consider that every voter was faced with the dilemma of whether a law should control intensive livestock…