The Animal Defense Association has broadcast, Wednesday, a video turned in an exploitation of dawn showing beasts receive blows.
Le Monde with AFP
The Animal Defense Association L214 denounces the treatments reserved for pigs in a breeding of the dawn providing the leader of the HERTA charcuterie, via a video broadcast Wednesday night where we can see blows carried to animals.
On the images, shot in August and September 2021 According to the association, a man is filmed in the process of carrying a series of dry blows on the back of a sow using a plastic instrument. A little earlier, another slams the head of two piglets to the ground to put them to death, a tolerated practice if the animals are moribund.
It is then seen at the very care of the living piglets in a plastic tray to practice with its colleague interventions often observed in breeding: section of the tail to prevent it eating by congeners, slopeing teeth to limit Injuries inflicted on other piglets and sows. The males are also castrated without anesthesia, a practice that will be banned at 1 January 2022.
The “Filière preference”
According to L214, the operation belongs to Promontval, which has nearly 20,000 pigs (including nearly 1,500 sows – the national average is 250 – and their descendants) on two sites, and recently got the authorization to expand.
It is engaged, according to the association, in the “preference” sector of Helta. In this sector, “our breeders undertake to respect a guide of good practices,” says the leader brand of delicatessen in France.
In a released release shortly before the video is made public, the company indicates that it has been informed “of the imminent publication of a load-dependent video”. She says she will analyze this video, as soon as she has access to the images, and launch an audit. ” “If failure to the rules actually be found in this breeding, Helta will be able to draw all the consequences,” adds the group, while deplorning “L214 relenting against breeding”.
HERTA already targeted in 2020 and 2021
The association announces that it appears to a complaint for “animal abuse and deception of consumers with the Troyes prosecutor”.
Solicited by the France-Presse agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Troyes’ prosecutor had not acted on Wednesday night. The prefecture of dawn did not wish to communicate.
L214 has already targeted a breeding “Filière preference” Herta from alloy in two released videos late 2020 and start 2021.
HERTA had suspended “by precaution” his supplies after the first video. The Group had taken over after an internal audit and after the local health authorities had concluded to the “good livestock holding and lack of major non-compliance”.
The authorities had, however, requested “corrective measures” in the field of watering, reduction of the density or replacement of the gratings. According to the Association, criminal proceedings were committed in parallel by the parquet of mills and a hearing will be held in January 2022.