Butchers against organic farmers, innkeepers against the Conservation Union, CSU against the Greens: shortly before the state elections in Bavaria, the beer tents and folk festivals are becoming increasingly hotly debated. A new “homeland pact” wants to prevent a revolution on the menu.
34 oxen and more than 50,000 Gickerl, that’s how much meat the visitors of the Straubinger Gäubodenfest ate last year. Hearty bites into chicken breasts and shoulders of ox: That’s the way it should stay at Bavaria’s second-largest folk festival, which should soon, in August, attract more than a million people. And so that it stays that way, not only in Straubing, but in general, there is now one “Home Pact” for enjoyment and joie de vivre. The farmers’ association and the butchers’ trade, the restaurant association and other organizations from the more conservative spectrum recently founded it.