The animal defense association L214 filed a complaint for “ill-treatment”, a support video, against rabbit farming the main manager of the French cunicultural sector, located in Ille-et-Vilaine.
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It is the most cage animal in Europe. In a video Revealed Thursday, August 25, the L214 animal defense association denounces the conditions for rabbit breeding located in Domalalain (Ille-et-Vilaine). This agricultural exploitation of Brittany belongs to the president of the National Federation of Rabbit Producers (Fenalap), said L214, which filed a complaint, asking for the rapid closure of the breeding.
The video broadcast on social networks by the association presents images which it ensures that it has filmed in May, within a breeding distributed on two sites and which would operate 1,500 reproductive rabbits: “isolated in cages, They are artificially inseminated every forty-two days. In total, they give birth to more than one hundred and thirty thousand lapereaux each year. “
These animals are intended to be sold and then slaughtered for their meat. “Part of the rabbits from this breeding are marketed under the Gauls brand” of the Voalailler LDC group, assured L214 to the France-Presse agency (AFP), which claims the “emergency closure” of the exploitation, supposed to be an “example” and “show the future of the sector”. The complaint targets the exploitation “as a legal person” as well as its leader, Frédéric Blot, and the health veterinarian of the farm, told AFP Sébastien Arsac, co -founder of L214. Contacted several times on Wednesday by AFP, Mr. Blot had not followed up on the agency’s requests in the evening. 2>
multiple injuries and deplorable hygiene
Multiple, infected and not neat injuries, diseases, dead rabbits, piled up or in decomposition, expired drugs: the images turned by the association are difficult to support and its numerous reproaches. The “health state” of this intensive breeding is notably shown in the finger, “animals never have access to the outside and are raised in closed buildings, without windows”, judge l214.
Activists for animal welfare also criticize the targeted company for deliberately lying on the conditions of breeding. On its website, the group of breeders elvilap , who markets 2.6 million rabbits each year, that is to say 10 % of French production and of which Breton livestock is, assures that “the health and well-being of [its] rabbits are part of [its] major concerns. “A version called into question by L214.