In a new video, L214 reveals the “horror”, according to her, in a pig farm in Morbihan. The animal defense association is calling for the emergency closure of this operation. The latter worked with the E.Leclerc group, via its Kermené slaughterhouse. The mass retail brand announces that it has ceased its collaboration at the end of January.
In the images broadcast this March 7, 2024 by L214, pigs floundering and dying in their own slurry, abandoned corpses “in the four corners of the breeding“, according to the animal defense association, “several are downright mummified. It’s horror, it’s death.” she denounces.
These images were filmed on two sites of a pig farm in Malansac and Trédion, in Morbihan. “The catastrophic state of the operation suggests that it is abandoned, underlines L214. The animals live in ruined buildings, in a stale atmosphere and an unsanitary environment: collapsing walls, water leaks, clogged troughs, massive dust.
The association speaks of excess pig mortality but also of environmental pollution, because, it notes, “the slurry flows into the surrounding environment”. She claims that the Morbihan prefecture “had known about it since May 2022”, citing the health checks carried out by the departmental directorate for population protection (DDPP). A formal notice order was issued in July 2023 against the breeder whom we tried in vain to contact. “L214 requests the emergency closure of this breeding” indicates the association. The latter filed a complaint for “bad treatments” And “environmental damage”.
The Vannes public prosecutor’s office announces that it has opened an investigation following this complaint.
The meat produced in this Morbihan farm supplied the E.Leclerc group with 200 pigs per week, via its Kermené slaughterhouse in Côtes-d’Armor, which declares that it has ended its “collaboration with the breeder identified by L214 from January 31. He is no longer referenced, is it mentioned in a press release. The slaughterhouse has built its approach towards respecting animal welfare.. And to remember that “34 animal protection managers, trained by veterinarians, ensure that good practices towards animals are respected. They are also the ones who raised the alarm about this farm.”
L214 asks the Breton retail giant “to exclude from its supplies farms which exercise the worst breeding practices and to sign the Pig minimum standard, a charter which prohibits certain practices which are still legal but recognized as harmful to pigs”. The association mentions in particular the cutting of tails, the grinding of teeth or even gestation and maternity cages for sows.
This new case comes as two of the largest pig farms in Finistère have just been fined 60,000 euros each, after a complaint from L214 for animal abuse.