VIDEO – The association against animal abuse L214 aired on Tuesday a video denouncing the treatment of animals in the slaughterhouse of Mauleon-Licharre, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. In response, the Minister Stephane Le Foll ordered inspections in all abattoirs in France next month.
Again, the images are unsustainable. In a new video released Tuesday by the Association L214, [Attention these images may offend] and relayed by the newspaper Le Monde , the inter-establishment of Soule, located in the small town of Mauleon-Licharre, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, is singled out for new cases of animal abuse. A month after the cruelty in the slaughterhouse filmed Vigan, Gard, and five months after those perpetrated in Ales, it is the turn of a meat-cutting business to arouse indignation. Especially since the slaughter of Soule highlights for years organic and Red Label. Shortly after these revelations, the local mayor, Michel Etchebest, announced the closure of the institution “indefinitely, as a precaution,” reports lemonde.fr. He also asked the management of the institution to “take over immediately all measures and adequate penalties against perpetrators, without prejudice to sanctions or most important measures to come, following the results of the resulting . ‘survey “
The video, shot with a hidden camera in March, testifies to the mistreatment of cattle, calves, especially the suckling lambs – animals of less than 45 days not yet weaned – to be killed for consumption. Slaughter practices shocking and clearly illegal denounced Brigitte Gothière, L214 spokesman, contacted by Le Figaro . “Our goal is to report to regulatory offenses in slaughterhouses.” According to the Rural Code, a Decree of 4 October 1997 on the protection of animals at the time of slaughter or killing, and after a European regulation of 2009, “any pain, distress or avoidable suffering is spared animals during the killing. ” But this is “clearly not the case at this property,” condemns Brigitte Gothière. Conventional slaughter shall provide for stunning of animals before bleeding, but here ‘control of unconsciousness is absent “, he stresses Brigitte Gothière.
Veterinary services singled out
like the pictures disclosed in slaughterhouses Vigan and Ales, we see in this latest video of the animals regain consciousness and struggling violently as they are suspended by the feet for bleeding. Employees are also beginning the cut on the legs and the head of the animals while they are still alive. Other hit animals or stun them with hooks. A lamb is even quartered alive, caught in the hooks in the absence of the operator. barbaric scenes that led to L214 complaint on Tuesday, before the prosecutor of Pau for acts of abuse, serious physical abuse and cruelty. An interim expertise will also be tabled in Pau Administrative Court to engage the responsibility of veterinary services, the association also considers malpractice. “No supervision by the veterinary inspection service will appear on images of Mauleon-Licharre, while regulations require continuous monitoring of slaughter by the 1200 Food Directorate General of agents,” says the door Floor-.
“I have tried to improve slaughter conditions for years, and then you turn your back, and employees strike the beasts”
The slaughterhouse of Mauleon-Licharre is yet anything but an industrial size plant. It includes thirty-three employees and is defined as “forward-slaughter quality.” Each year about 3000 tons of meat were slaughtered there. Meats that are cut there, and which come to 40% of the Soule valley are partly certified Red Label and classified under the European system of protected geographical indications (PGI). Among its more than 460 customers include the famous Parisian restaurants and chefs like Alain Ducasse. Asked by Le Monde , the director of the slaughterhouse, Gerard Clemente, said he “collapsed” after watching the video. At the head of this institution for forty years, he denies being aware of these practices: “I am very often in my abattoir, I tried to improve slaughter conditions for years, and there, you turn back, and employees strike animals. It is cooked. ” The man ensures he will dismiss the offending employee and denounces the pace of killing animals. “We must kill 15,000 lambs in two weeks for Easter. If we worked more serenely, they would not commit this type of action. “
” I have never found one that respects the rules “
Brigitte also Gothière the question of the pace of work arises. “Our consumption system involves killing the animals in the chain, and this results in abuses,” she says. A new petition was started by L214 to ask the Prime Minister ‘effective transparency slaughterhouses by setting up tools that allow NGOs and citizens to exercise a right. ” “This is to allow citizens to know what they have in trim and railing against animal abuse,” says the spokesman of the association. And it announced new videos: “People talk more and more. We get a lot of alerts, and today one wonders if one slaughterhouse actually respects the rules in France. Since the establishment of the association, I’ve never seen one. ”
The Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, on Tuesday reaffirmed his “outrage at the unacceptable practices,” demanding the immediate suspension of the activity of the slaughterhouse. So, he asked all the prefects to achieve “within a month specific inspections on animal welfare in all slaughterhouses slaughter of French territory.” Thus he calls “immediately suspend the authorization of such establishments and the establishment of a record” for failure found during inspections.
On 22 March, a parliamentary commission investigating the slaughter conditions of animals for slaughter in abattoirs French had already been created by the National Assembly. Composed of thirty deputies, it will make a report within six months.
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