The collective "Brittany against factory farms" carried out an action against agro-industry on Saturday morning.
A train transporting cereals intended for the manufacture of animal feed was immobilized near Pontivy by around fifty demonstrators and part of its load dumped on the tracks.
"The above-ground system is going straight into the wall, we must put agribusiness down," the protesters said in a statement.
The activists built a wall across the railway tracks to symbolize 'a wall across the tracks of agribusiness'.
“The earth can no longer regenerate” warns the collective
"By dumping these cereals intended to feed part of the Breton livestock, we symbolize the link to the soil to be recreated in our agriculture, the link to the Breton land, this same land which cannot withstand the effects of the raising such a large number of animals,” they explained on their Facebook page.
“The earth can no longer regenerate;
it is the overstepping of its limits which obliges the massive imports of proteins and the exports of nitrogen and phosphorus towards less saturated lands”, they wrote, in reference to transport, in particular towards other regions of France, manure from Breton farms, used as fertilizer.
“We will continue to act.
It is the lives of male and female farmers that are at stake (…) The latest IPCC report clearly indicates a lack of political will” to change the situation.
The Collective advocates "peasant agriculture, living, agro-ecological, territorialized, job-creating and remunerative".
"A scandalous action", according to the FRSEA
The shipment was destined for Sanders, a subsidiary of the Avril group, according to the demonstrators.
The Regional Federation of Farmers' Unions (FRSEA), the Regional Chamber of Agriculture as well as Crédit Agricole and Groupama in particular, denounced on Saturday evening "a scandalous action on the part of activists disconnected from reality and acting against the interest general”.
"We are asking for a reaction from the State to put an end to acts of all forms calling into question our agriculture", these organizations have indicated, recalling that this train interception took place "when the UN fears a" hurricane of famines" and food riots, consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict".
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