An investigation was opened after the complaint from the L214 association for “ill-treatment” of animals in a pig farm in Morbihan, the Vannes public prosecutor's office announced Wednesday evening March 6 to Agence France-Presse.
This announcement comes a few days after two companies constituting one of the largest Breton pig farms were sentenced to a fine of 60,000 euros, including 20,000 suspended, following a complaint from the animal rights association. L214.
L214 has this time filed a complaint against a breeder owning two farms in Malansac and Trédion, in Morbihan, whose "catastrophic state suggests that [they are] abandoned", indicates the association in a press release. According to L214, meat from animals from this farm “is sold in E. Leclerc stores” and the association “calls on the brand to stop its supply with this operator”. She launched a public petition to this effect.
“An investigation has been opened,” public prosecutor Maxime Antier told AFP, confirming “the filing of a complaint” by L214.
“An unsanitary environment”
In the photos and videos sent by the association, we can see pigs with gaping wounds, pieces of corpses lying in a feed trough, but also sows living with their dead piglets and still carrying artificial insemination probes in their reproductive systems. . “The animals live in ruined buildings, in a stale atmosphere and an unsanitary environment: collapsing walls, water leaks, clogged troughs, massive dust… Slurry flows into the surrounding environment,” explains the organization.
“The prefecture [of Morbihan] has been aware of the situation for almost two years,” accuses L214, who demands the immediate closure of the operation, evoking “the horror” in this “dying”.
The L214 association, which aspires to a world without animal exploitation and therefore without meat, made itself known by broadcasting shocking images filmed in secret on farms or slaughterhouses. It was created in 2008 and today has around a hundred full-time employees.
