More than a thousand animal protection organizations, as well as many personalities and parliamentarians of all stripes, demanded this Sunday "an economic recovery integrating the protection of animals and the environment" after the health crisis linked to the coronavirus. This column, written by Convergence Animaux Politique (CAP), was published in the Journal du dimanche .
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"We demand that the economic recovery plan which will soon be drawn up fully integrates societal demand in favor of greater consideration of animals and the environment," she said.
The text is co-signed by several parliamentarians such as deputies Aurore Bergé and Cédric Villani (LREM), Mathieu Orphelin (ex-LREM), Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Modem), Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Coquerel (LFI), as well as by personalities including the actress Hélène de Fougerolles, the lawyer Arno Klarsfeld, the journalist Hugo Clément, the former boss of Renault Louis Schweitzer, current president of the foundation Animal right, ethics and sciences, as well as the president of the League for the protection of birds (LPO), Allain Bougrain-Dubourg.
Ban cages and mutilation
So that the “next world” is better than the “previous world”, they call on France to “defend a reform of the common agricultural policy”, in particular “by conditioning aid to respect animal welfare , the preservation of biodiversity and the limitation of negative effects on the environment ”.
In their eyes, it is necessary to favor "European and a fortiori French products, in particular via public catering and the implementation of a tax on less virtuous non-European products, in exchange for a significant increase in breeding standards" , which goes concretely through the "prohibition of cages and mutilations and of a plan aiming, in the long term, the end of all breeding without access to the outside".
The signatories also advocate a "geographic rapprochement of producers and consumers" which would notably involve "the end of this transport outside the borders of the Union, often to countries which do not meet European slaughter standards". Finally, they ask that national research be "expressly directed towards research and the development of methods substituting for animal experimentation".
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