Special envoy to the Landes
8000 ducks for nothing.
Thierry Vignolles has a heavy heart.
The H5N8 avian flu virus hit his family farm at Metera, in Perquie, in the heart of Armagnac, in the Landes department.
The four plots where usually thousands of palmipeds frolic in the open air, the specificity of farms in the South-West, are empty.
The country's leading producer of foie gras, the Landes department has 294 farms affected by avian influenza, i.e. more than three quarters of the outbreaks identified by the Ministry of Agriculture in the country (378).
Over a million ducks have been slaughtered.
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On Monday, the 6,800 ducks still alive at the Metera were taken away by truck to be slaughtered at a specialized site
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"We do not breed ducks with such difficulty so that they leave under these conditions and end up in the cement factories, recycled in fat or in flour to supply the boiler rooms.
In four years, this is the second time
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