INTERVIEW
Dirty enclosures and even corpses. A few months after a shock video on a rabbit farm, the L214 association unveiled the conditions for breeding thousands of pigs on a farm in Finistère. Affiliated with the Triskalia group, this farm, one of the largest in the region, has 800 breeding sows and several thousand pigs to fatten, according to the association. Despite the violence of images broadcast on social networks by L214, its president, invited the Grand Journal of the evening, says "an overwhelming majority of animals [in breeding] are raised in similar conditions."
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"Sows that are locked in cages where they can just get up and go to bed, this is common to all farms," says Brigitte Gothière, who continues: "Today, on pig farms, 95 % of the animals do not have access to the outside, and live on grating - a perforated floor - over their excrement, and sows that can just get up or go to bed are common to all farms. "
Conditions that can push cannibalism
The other shocking point of this new video is based on the hygienic conditions in which these animals live. If Brigitte Gothière hopes that "this is not the case in other farms", she doubts: "all the surveys conducted by L214 and other associations show worrying conditions for animals that are sensitive, and which, under these conditions, develop behavioral disorders and may aggression each other. " And, indeed, the video of the association includes images where we see a live pig being eaten by his peers.