Silvia Bender

Silvia Bender (born 9 March 1970) is a German Green party politician and a State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture since 2019.

Silvia Bender
Born9 March 1970 (1970-03-09) (age 53)
Bonn, West Germany
Known forState Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Life

Bender was born in 1970 in Bonn, West Germany.

She was appointed as the State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Climate Protection of Brandenburg in 2019.[1]

In 2021 she became a State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[2]

She announced that antibiotics given to animals had been reduced by 100 tonnes since the previous year in August 2022.[3]

In 2022 she faced criticism from demonstrating farmers who were protesting in Bonn at the proposed banning of pesticides in certain areas. She said that these were EU proposals of which Germany was broadly in favour.[4]

References
  1. "Staatssekretärin | MLUK". 2021-12-08. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  2. "Staatssekretärin Silvia Bender". Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (in German). 6 December 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. publisher (8 August 2022). "Tiermedizin: Antibiotikaabgabe sinkt 2021 deutlich". BMEL (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. "Bender auf Bauerndemo: Geplantes Pflanzenschutzverbot in Landschaftsschutzgebieten geht zu weit". top agrar (in German). 2022-08-15. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
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