Shocked by the investigation of an animal welfare association, Nagui calls for mobilization (video)
L214, a French association for animal protection (a bit like Gaia in Belgium), involves a French company, Sanders, a subsidiary of the Avril group, an agro-industrial group specializing in human food and animal. This is the second time in ten days that this group is involved.
The survey conducted in the first private European research center for experimental animal nutrition in Sourches in the Sarthe (near Le Mans) "deeply shocked" Nagui, one of the star hosts of France Télévisions. To the point that the latter has agreed to shoot a video (posted this Wednesday on youtube) to denounce the practices of the company and call on citizens to sign a petition to ban the practice of cows "porthole". These cows on which is affixed a cannula allowing a direct access to the belly of the cattle. A system that allows you to observe and study their digestion.
Watch out, not for the faint-hearted :
In addition to these cows "porthole", the host denounces the living conditions of the animals who are boarders. Nagui talks about "Chickens so obese that they can not move anymore" ; "isolated calves in tiny pens", "some with digestive disorders" ; pigs and rabbits "Diseased" "locked in tiny cages".
He adds that for this company "and for the intensive breeding which is largely majority in France", "animals are only machines to produce". A situation to which "it is necessary to put an end" because she "is at the expense of animal health and our health".
Images "Manipulated" "for sensationalist purposes" ?
The group Avril reacts this Thursday to this video via a statement posted on its website. he "regrets again the manipulation of mounted images, shot at night for sensationalistic purposes. This, in the context of an illegal intrusion in a center yet regularly open to the public ".
For him, the process of the "cannula" "used on six cows is the subject of research to allow the establishment of alternative practices" ; that this process "is used all over the world " and that'"he is accompanied by extremely rigorous veterinary monitoring and is currently the only solution to study the digestion of plant proteins ".
The April group adds that"eIn France, this process is governed by the regulations and is the subject of an authorization from the Ministry in charge of Research..
Belgium also uses this process
It is true to say that other research laboratories around the world use this practice of the "porthole" cow, also called "cannula" cow. This is particularly the case in Switzerland, Canada, the United States, but also in Belgium.
In 2016, this process had already been denounced at home where the faculty Agro Bio Tech from Gembloux was questioned. All animal welfare groups were shocked by this practice. The Dean of the Faculty of the time, Philippe Lepoivre, felt that if the indignant reactions were legitimate, they were "the fact of a bad knowledge of the experience".
For him, it was a painless operation that does not interfere with the animal in its everyday life: "It can be seen when you touch this cannula, the cow does not move and shows no signs of discomfort.Also one of our two cows even gave birth to a calf without problem"explained one of the professors, Yves Beckers.
Not sure that these arguments calm all those who fight for animal welfare and the end of intensive breeding.
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