The L214 association denounced, with a video broadcast Wednesday evening, the "extreme violence" exerted in a cage breeding of laying hens in Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres), accusations refuted by the Pampr'oeuf group according to which the images "do not do not ”come from his farms.
The association for the defense of animals, which has lodged a complaint for "ill-treatment and acts of cruelty" against the company, affirms that in this farm, "nearly 200,000 hens live on top of each other in cramped cages, without never see the light of day ”.
Some "no longer have any feathers on their bodies", others are dead and left "among their fellows, sometimes to an advanced level of decomposition".
The images also show the "abuse" that the poultry suffer when they are loaded for the slaughterhouse: employees filmed "shooting hens as if they were soccer balls" and animals packed "like goods. »In crates.
Images that go back to last August
L214 also notes in its press release "multiple" breaches of regulations on facilities, loading conditions or employee protection.
According to L214, which regularly denounces animal abuse in intensive farms, these images were taken in August and September last, after an alert from an employee.
In a statement, the company said the images "do not come from our farms" and show "behavior that Pampr'oeuf considers unacceptable".
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The company, whose farms are "very regularly inspected", ensures that "the behaviors denounced absolutely do not correspond to the practices of (its) employees" and that its "teams use methods respectful of animal welfare".
She asks that the images be handed over to justice "so that the perpetrators of these acts can be identified".
Controls dispatched by the State
The group, which employs 180 employees in France including 120 on the Pamproux site, produces one billion calibrated eggs per year, according to its website.
For its part, the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres, recalling that the company "refutes such images", indicates in a press release that "the state services have mobilized and moved to carry out adequate checks".
The images "shocking testifying to acts of cruelty towards animals indeed call for a reaction", adds the prefecture according to which the investigation is continuing to "give rise, if necessary, to a transmission to justice" .