Nearly fifty activists from the animal rights association L214 gathered Tuesday morning on the Trocadéro esplanade in Paris to denounce the practices of intensive chicken breeding by Le Gaulois.
The activists exhibited for about an hour 44 chicken corpses from the same farm of the LDC group brand, from the chick stage to their placement in trays, to illustrate
“44 days of frantic growth”
, according to the association.
“With this illustration we can see that we go from a small chick of 50 grams, to a chicken of 3 kilos, so it has multiplied its size by 60 in just six weeks.
It illustrates the madness that is happening on farms and it tells of the extreme suffering of these animals
,” declared Brigitte Gothière, co-founder of L214.
Through this action, the association asks the brand to stop using
“ultra-fast growing”
genetic strains bearing the name Ross 308 as well as to
“commit to banning the worst breeding practices”
.
“The Gaul treats his chickens like objects, he produces them as we would produce cars
,” estimates Léo Le Ster, campaign manager for L214, for whom this accelerated growth affects the health of chickens.
“These 44 chickens that we see there, they all died of heart attacks, lung problems, various illnesses... sometimes there are even some, puny ones, who could no longer reach the water troughs and the feeders and who died of hunger or thirst
,” he lamented.
Attract audience attention
In addition to calling on the brand to take action against intensive breeding, this action is also carried out with the aim of attracting public attention.
“We bring the chickens here to show what it really does, because it’s true that for people who don’t know [this subject] well, it can be very imprecise
,” explains Pauline Laporte, employee of the association.
“Even if we have been an activist for the animal cause for a long time, we don’t get used to the horror in the end
,” confides Hélène, also an employee of the association, who is carrying the corpse of a chicken that died after 36 days. .
“It’s a pretty solemn moment, we see people passing by, we see people intrigued and wondering, it’s important to be there.”