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Rescued a few months ago from a clandestine slaughterhouse, ewes put back on their feet will live a second life in pasture in the middle of the vineyards in the Rhone Valley.
The sheep are frightened and slightly lost, but once in the enclosure, a quiet life awaits them. Four little lambs will spend two months grazing the soils of this organic life in Côte-Rôtie, a controlled designation of origin in the Rhône. “Our goal is to offer them a golden retirement. They have suffered a lot of mistreatment and malevolence, today they only serve us for eco-grazing, not to be eaten”, explains Christophe Darpheuil, member of the Naturama association.
The four females were saved from an illegal slaughterhouse last fall by associations. Sick, hungry, injured: only 90 sheep survived. Today, these ecological mowers are entrusted to a farmer who has been testing eco-grazing for a year. “We are much more attached to animals than to machines”, he underlines, and specifies that “the process is not that complicated with a little organization” upstream. Eventually, he would like to install animals permanently in his vines.