L214 reveals new shocking images. Ducks locked up, sometimes covered in mud and blood. The animal rights association announced this Wednesday that it is filing a complaint against a farm of more than 5,000 ducks in Châtillon-sur-Colmont (Mayenne) for mistreatment and abandonment of animals. But also against companies linked to this farm for deceiving consumers, such as the Michel group, the local slaughterhouse and the LDC group, leader in poultry in France with Le Gaulois or Loué.
This is because the ducks on this farm are supposed to be raised outdoors. The association relies on the testimony of a former employee to prove the opposite. Anaïs, who spent eight months on the farm, says: “The ducks are sold (under the name) outdoors when they are not at all, they remain locked up in the buildings”. The association then adds that these ducks “live on litter that is never changed and is saturated with urine and droppings; some have difficulty breathing and others are in agony”.
The ducks “are plucked, gasping, agonizing, and dying”
A damning observation. “In 50 days, 155 ducks died in one of the two buildings of the farm” continues the press release, a rate “2.5 times higher than the average mortality rate for this type of farm”. And “the corpses (dead) are burned or thrown into the neighbor’s field, completely illegally” L214 also states. This is the second fault according to the information collected by the association. The use of rendering services to treat animals that die on farms is a legal obligation.
The abuse does not seem to stop there. The ducks are “locked in a dilapidated building, on a soiled straw floor that remains the same for 50 days, a large number of ducks from this farm are plucked, gasping for breath, dying, and dying” according to the association. L214 then concludes in its press release that the ducks “sometimes lack water and food, and are collected without care and crammed into metal crates to be sent to the slaughterhouse.”
Reports already made
The whistleblower then recounts that a report was made to the LDC group, at the head of the Le Gaulois or Loué brands, last March. The commercial links with the farm had not been broken or suspended at the time. Another company linked to this farm, the Michel group on which it depends, carried out an inspection leading to the closure of half of the farm. But the images and testimony collected by L214 also concern the remaining buildings.
“At this stage, we have not had access to the images, so we cannot react regarding its content,” the French poultry leader LDC told AFP. Before specifying that they had “detected in recent weeks a problem of irregularity in the weight of ducks” which led them “to ask the producer group to put in place an action plan.”
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