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'''We are fed up!''' ({{langx|de|Wir haben es satt!}}) is the theme of a series of demonstrations in Germany against industrial livestock production and for more sustainable farming. The biggest demonstrations take place every year in Berlin since 2011<ref>[http://www.dw.de/protesters-in-berlin-call-for-an-end-to-factory-farming/a-14780207-1 Deutsche Welle, ''Protesters in Berlin call for an end to factory farming'', 22 January 2011]</ref> and attract up to 30,000 people.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/farmageddon-cost-cheap-meat-lymbery-review|title=Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review|author=Tristram Stuart|work=the Guardian|date=31 January 2014 |accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/stopping-starvation-everyone-can-do-something/a-17155293|title=Stopping starvation: ′Everyone can do something′ - Germany - DW.COM - 14.10.2013|work=DW.COM|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref><ref>Shefali Sharma, [http://www.iatp.org/blog/201401/germans-speaking-out-against-industrial-meat-and-agriculture "Germans speaking out against industrial meat and agriculture"], Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 9 January 2014.</ref> Around 120 different groups, which represent farmers, companies, and environmental rights and animal rights activists organize and sustain the demonstrations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/berlin-protests-focus-on-farming-and-food-safety-1.1316948|title=Berlin protests focus on farming and food safety|date=21 January 2013|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.wir-haben-es-satt.de/start/netzwerk/traegerinnen/ Wir haben es satt!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708061848/http://www.wir-haben-es-satt.de/start/netzwerk/traegerinnen/ |date=2016-07-08 }}, website of the organizers (German)</ref> The protests take place parallel to the Berlin International Green Week.
==Overview== Independent from the protests in Berlin, demonstrations under a similar theme occurred in Amsterdam in 2012 and 2013. The event in the Netherlands was called ''we zijn het MEGA zat'', which translates to "we are MEGA fed up" and is a reference to the scale of industrial livestock farming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wezijnhetmegazat.nl/|title=We zijn het mega zat!!|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sp.nl/milieu/nieuwsberichten/11533/120309-manifestatie_we_zijn_mega_zat_ondersteund_door_sp.html |title=SP, ''Manifestatie 'We zijn het mega-zat' ondersteund door SP'', 9 March 2012 |access-date=1 February 2014 |archive-date=13 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313032111/http://www.sp.nl/milieu/nieuwsberichten/11533/120309-manifestatie_we_zijn_mega_zat_ondersteund_door_sp.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>PvDA, [http://www.pvda.nl/berichten/2012/03/Actie-Mega-Zat ''Kom naar actie tegen megastal'', 12. March 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212070230/http://www.pvda.nl/berichten/2012/03/Actie-Mega-Zat |date=2013-12-12 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Wir haben es satt 2013 demo 19.01.2013 13-17-02.jpg|Protesters who say no to land grabbing and food speculation (Berlin, 2013) File:Wir haben es satt 2013 demo 19.01.2013 14-40-39.jpg|''Slow Food Germany'' is among the organizers of the protests (Berlin, 2013). File:Wir haben es satt 2013 demo 19.01.2013 14-31-26.jpg|''We are fed up!'' protester (Berlin, 2013) </gallery>
==See also== *''Meat Atlas – Facts and figures about the animals we eat''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foeeurope.org/fed-up-30000-march-Berlin-190114|title=We are fed up: 30,000 march in Berlin|work=Friends of the Earth Europe|accessdate=6 September 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.wir-haben-es-satt.de/start/home/in-english/ Website of the organisations that support and organize the ''We are fed up!''-demonstrations]
Category:Protest marches Category:2010s in Berlin Category:2010s in Amsterdam Category:Protest marches in Germany Category:Intensive farming Category:Protests in the Netherlands