Special envoy to Charolles (Saône-et-Loire)
On that cold but sunny November morning, three of the fifty cows on a Charolais farm must be killed.
From their stable where they ruminate peacefully to the mobile slaughterhouse, only forty meters separate them.
Between the two places, barriers and haystacks have been lined up.
They delimit a corridor by which soon, one after the other, they will be led by their breeder to arrive more serenely at the place of their killing.
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This slaughter laboratory is not located in a usual building, but in a mobile slaughterhouse, installed in one of three 44-ton white vehicles, lined up side by side in the courtyard of Arnault Kubiaczyk's farm.
This thirty-year-old breeder has been living near Charolles since 2017.
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