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Iron cages lined up as far as the eye can see in a huge warehouse, and inside, more than 8000 rabbits heaped on top of each other ... The L214 animal welfare association published a new survey on Tuesday, this time on the conditions breeding rabbits in France. As it has done many times in the past, the association has placed cameras in an intensive breeding which is located in the town of Nueil-les-Aubiers, in Deux-Sèvres.
In this breeding, some 500 breeding mothers and their rabbits have barely 20 centimeters of space each. Animals do not have enough room to get up; some animals are injured, the legs stuck in the cage grilles. On the images of the association L214, we also see dead rabbits in the middle of the others. At each new litter, the breeder sorts out and the young rabbits are slaughtered, stunned against the corner of a wooden crate.
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Today, we are demanding to get out of the cage era!
Faced with these unsustainable images, Sébastien Arsac, spokesperson for the L214 association, denounces the lack of legislative framework for rabbit farms. "The rabbit farms are not regulated by any specific regulation, the breeder can pile up as many rabbits as he wants in a cage and we will not tell him anything," he reports to Europe 1. "Today we are demanding to get out of the caged era! "
A petition launched by a group of associations to ban cages for all livestock has already collected nearly a million signatures. When this threshold is exceeded, the European Commission will be obliged to hear the demands of these associations and to study the practices of these intensive rabbit farms.