This Saturday, November 18 in Perpignan, as in around thirty other cities in France, animal rights activists L214 will stand in front of a supermarket to denounce the conditions for raising chickens from the Le Gaulois brand, which, according to them, , genetically modifies poultry to make them grow faster.
LDC, the leading French poultry group, is once again in the crosshairs of animal rights activists. On its website, L214 claims to have filmed, for the 5th time in three years, the living conditions in certain Breton henhouses which supply the Le Gaulois and Maître CoQ brands.
According to these animal welfare advocates, the chicks there have undergone genetic manipulation to obtain abnormally rapid growth which seriously harms their health.
This accelerated growth often causes cardiac and respiratory fragility and disproportionate muscle development. These malformations could cause the death of certain individuals, unable to reach feeders and drinkers.
L214 filed a complaint against the breeding located in Montauban-de-Bretagne and against the Le Gaulois brand for the use of this forced-growth genetic strain, the association specifies in a press release.
From barely born chick to chicken ready to be slaughtered for the Le Gaulois brand, there are only 44 days. Their growth is 4 times faster than in 1950, which causes limb malformations, heart and respiratory diseases, and even disproportionate muscular development.
Saturday November 18 in Perpignan, in front of the Leclerc Polygone supermarket located on avenue du Languedoc, L214 will participate in a re-labeling operation for Le Gaulois chicken trays.
Activists plan to protest against the uuse of these fast-growing strains by attaching a new label to the brand’s trays to give “consumers with information closer to the reality of the breeding conditions of Le Gaulois chickens.”
Similar operations are to take place in more than 30 cities in France, where volunteers from the association will demonstrate and distribute leaflets to explain their approach to consumers.
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