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Judges declare the great French barn "1,000 vaches" illegal

  • The court in Duai (Picardy, France) has declared the giant barn that it had spread in the village of Ducrat illegal, about 1,000 of the arrival of 500 cows. In this way, the authorization of the lower judges of 2017 is suspended. The owners of the gigantic cowboy will have to reduce the barn again to 500 pieces if they do not want to pay the fine. However, the owners have announced that they will appeal to the most senior judges in the affected area.

20 December 2019 - 07:49
Ukuilu erraldoiaren aurkako mobilizazio ugarietako bat. (Argazkia: Liberation)

The judgment of the Duai Court has made the leap to one of the great conflicts that the peasants in the French State have experienced over recent years. In fact, one of the symbols of industrial livestock farming was the huge barn built in the village of Ducrat, which in French has been summed up in the title "1,000 vaches" (Mila behi). ARGIA summed up the conflict in July 2014 in its chronicle "Cows in stables, not milk and manure factories": "The farmers of the French state want to paralyse the huge farm that will house over 1,000 cows and 800 more heifers. If it is that size, in Caparroso de Navarra. And in India, multinationals want to build a total of 40,000 cows. Farmers teach us what cheap milk hides.

Robotic milking room of the giant Ducrat bovine. (Photo: Capital)

As throughout the world, this new agro-industry project found no more support than support from the authorities and the citizens who mobilized against the damage of all kinds of this gigantic infrastructure met around the environmental association Novissen and the Confederation Paysanne, which includes the Basque ELB. The legitimacy of the giant farm implanted by the de facto industrialists in 2014 was confirmed by the courts in a first judgment in 2017, but it has now been won on appeal by ecologists and farmers, as read in this chronicle of Le Monde.

Confederation Paysane values the latest news: "We want the ruling to be implemented immediately and that this is the first step towards ending aid for industrial cultivation once and for all and to reorient fully our public policies affecting agriculture, food and land management in favour of popular cultivation."


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