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A rabbit farm located in Augan, in Morbihan, was filmed by the L214 association.

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The images are not the most trash that the association has produced.

With its new video filmed in Brittany, L214 hopes above all to "raise awareness" about cage farming and put pressure on the deputies who will discuss a bill in the Economic Affairs Committee this Thursday.

Supported by the Écologie Démocratie Solidarité group chaired by Maine-et-Loire deputy Matthieu Lorphelin, the text aims to end intensive farming and cage farming by 2040. To try to convince people of the merits From this proposal, the animal protection association used its favorite weapon: video.

Filmed at the end of August in an intensive rabbit farm in Augan, in Morbihan, the images show the living conditions of thousands of animals locked in cages.

According to L214, "more than 40,000 rabbits are locked up there on a wire mesh floor" or a structure "six times larger than the national average".

And it is this gigantism that the association wants to tackle by showing the immensity of a shed without light where animals are crowded.

The objective is assumed: "that the deputies have in mind the reality of intensive breeding for the animals which undergo it", indicates Sébastien Arsac, one of the spokesperson of the association.

Another farm targeted in the municipality

In 2014, a video shot in the same town caused a scandal.

The images of mutilated or dying rabbits had shocked public opinion.

Local farmers had shown their support for their offending colleague and an investigation had been carried out.

The health checks carried out by the Morbihan prefecture were found to "comply with the rules relating to the environment and the protection of animals".

The operation has since closed its doors.

The hidden camera videos produced by L214 are formally condemned by the agricultural profession.

"These people are extremists", recently denounced the president of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture Loïc Guines.

“There are state services to control.

Trespassing on farms hurts.

We feel soiled, attacked and helpless.

It's intolerable ".

The boss of Breton peasants had also recalled his attachment to “all forms of agriculture”, believing that conventional sectors “have a future”, and that “the industry needs eggs from caged hens”.

An opinion that does not share the animal protection association.

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