Tiroler Tageszeitung / Digital cow trade should protect the environment: Cattle with just a few clicks

Mostviertel, Innsbruck -Digitalisation is moving into the stable. At least if Florian Aspalter and Wolfgang Schiessl have their way. With their company Viehworld, the two Lower Austrians want to bring the livestock trade out of the auction halls and onto the internet. With just a few clicks, cattle, pigs, sheep and the like can be auctioned or sold via smartphone. Among other things, this should shorten transport routes, explains Schiessl. The man from Mostviertel is actually a veterinarian and had the idea for digital cow trading. Traditional auctions take up to three days and "are an enormous stress for the animals", he says. The animal has to be registered, washed, delivered - "and if it is not sold, all the effort was for nothing," he continues. Then the animal returns to the barn and, in the worst case, brings diseases with it. "The cattle are chained next to each other in the auction hall, which increases the risk of virus transmission," the veterinarian explains.

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