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Agricultural Show: are the animals present given medication to keep them calm?
Agricultural Show: are the animals present given medication to keep them calm?
(franceinfo)
Some environmentalists, including Sandrine Rousseau, MP for Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), believe that the animals present at the Agricultural Show are suffering from stress to the point of having to give them medication. The Franceinfo True or False unit looked into this statement.
On the set of the Quotidien show, Europe Écologie – Les Verts (EELV) MP Sandrine Rousseau affirmed that the animals present at the Agricultural Show “suffer from the noise, the crowds” and that’“Most of the time they are on medication to keep them calm”. But according to Doctor Olivier Chaumeil, veterinarian and member of the Salon’s care service, “there are no tranquilizers”. “Arriving animals must arrive without any pharmacy except ongoing treatments, but the animals are not sedated at all and nothing is administered to them”he assures.
Animals destined for the slaughterhouse?
There are many sedatives “more powerful if an animal panics (…), but on average this only concerns one animal every two years”explains Nicolas Carvalho, journalist at the Vrai ou Faux unit of franceinfo, on the set of 19/20 info, Friday March 1. On social networks, another rumor is gaining momentum: all the animals present at the Show are destined for the slaughterhouse at the end of the event. A false statement according to all the professionals and organizers of the Show contacted by franceinfo.
