About thirty deputies, including elected officials from the Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity group, have tabled a bill to go further than Minister Barbara Pompili's announcements on animal welfare.
They propose in particular to ban traditional hunts.
Two days after Barbara Pompili's announcements on animal welfare, around thirty deputies tabled a bill to go even further.
The text, carried by the elected representatives of the Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity (EDS) group, notably includes the demands of the RIP, the popular initiative referendum desired by the reporter Hugo Clément and several businessmen including Xavier Niel, the boss of Free, and which has already collected 785,000 signatures in 3 months.
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These elected officials, including former marchers Cédric Villani and Matthieu Orphelin, but also former socialist minister Delphine Batho, ask the government to take action, first, on traditional hunts.
For them, they should be banned, because they are of a cruelty that no longer corresponds to our time.
Hunting, for example, involves chasing an animal until it dies of exhaustion or removing foxes from their burrows with the help of pincers and dogs.
Remove laying hens from cages
These elected officials also demand to stop raising animals in cages, starting with laying hens, which would come out of cages within five years maximum.
Today, two out of three hens are raised in a wire enclosure.
Then, within 10 years, the measure would concern rabbits, ducks, pigs or quails, all other animals raised in cages or boxes.
The deputies say they are well aware of the economic difficulties of certain breeders and foresee delays of up to 20 years to allow the necessary work.
And they insist on the support fund to help them financially.