A new shock investigation was published overnight from Wednesday to Thursday by the animal protection association L214. It concerns a breeding of ducks used for the foie gras sector. This breeding is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the town of Lichos. The L214 association ensures that the video is the worst they have been able to shoot since the creation of the association a little over ten years ago.
As the pictures show, inside this totally unsanitary building, there are as many living ducks as there are rotting carcasses. The animal droppings, never collected, overflowed outside the shed and even contaminated a stream located next door.
>> Below, the video published by L214. Be careful, these images are shocking.
"A breeding is checked once every 100 years!"
The L214 association filed a complaint for cruelty to animals and damage to the environment. She calls for the immediate closure of this breeding. But for Sébastien Arsac, co-founder of L214, we must go further. "We are now asking for an audit for all the farms and hatcheries for the production of foie gras. Clearly, checks are too rare. A farm is checked once every 100 years!", Explains to Europe 1 this association manager. "Obviously we cannot imagine that there is not an extreme situation, as with this duck farm in Lichos."
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In addition to this generalized audit, the L214 association asks the Ministry of Agriculture to publish the inspection reports carried out in all the farms in the foie gras sector. The ministry asked Thursday morning to the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques a "formal notice", which could go as far as a "suspension of activity" of this breeding.