Amendment to the budget: Feasibility study regional slaughtering

The district council shall decide:           

1.       For the financial year 2022, the district council decides to commission a feasibility study for the maintenance or construction of a joint slaughterhouse with the eco-model region Main-Kinzig and Wetteraukreis.

2.       To prepare a feasibility study, funds of 50,000 euros will be put into the budget.

3.       The Regional Slaughter Round Table shall be convened as soon as possible and at the latest in Q2/2022.

4.       After six months, the results of the Round Table will be the subject of an interim report in the Committee on Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport, the Environment and Agriculture.

Explanatory memorandum:

After the closure of the slaughterhouse in Büdingen, a central slaughterhouse for the butchers and direct marketers from the Main-Kinzig district has disappeared.

As a result, the transport routes of slaughter animals increase enormously and the possibility of unloading during animal transport checks, for example after checks on the motorway, is completely eliminated.

By conducting a feasibility study, the potential for a regional slaughterhouse is to be explored. Among other things, it is to be examined under which measures, possibly to be created, a regional slaughterhouse can be operated economically.

The district council laid the foundations for this with the establishment of a round table on regional slaughter (KOA_AG/0044/2021) on 29 October 2021. This created the necessary prerequisite for carrying out such a feasibility study and for having it accompanied and evaluated through the round table.

It is therefore imperative to set aside the necessary budget for such a feasibility study.