The new school year has already begun for children in eastern Austria, and the last week of the holidays has begun in Upper Austria. The “Wirtschaften am Land” association from Vienna has also been looking into schools: In cooperation with “Junge Landwirtschaft Österreich”, 97 textbooks from the first eight school years – primary schools and general secondary schools (AHS) – were examined for their content on agriculture.
The association is not satisfied with the result, and the results were presented together with Farmers’ Association President Georg Strasser at a press conference on Monday. Knowledge about domestic agriculture is increasingly being lost: in four out of ten books for primary schools (in the subject of general knowledge), the subject does not appear at all. In the case of books for secondary schools, this applies to almost a quarter, it was said.
Forestry and hunting are also discussed too rarely. There are clear deficiencies in the content, criticised club chairman Robert Pichler.
Factory farming or not?
The association is offended by the fact that a picture (bottom left) in a biology textbook published by Westermann is supposed to show factory farming. However, the cows depicted in the stable are actually from an animal welfare stable.
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Image: OÖN
Source: Nachrichten
