{"id":761244,"date":"2020-08-22T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=761244"},"modified":"2020-08-23T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T11:58:53","slug":"height-of-horror-animal-rights-group-publishes-shocking-video-of-french-foie-gras-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=761244","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Height of horror\u2019: Animal rights group publishes shocking video of French foie gras farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The ducks are locked up in collapsing cages, the ground is covered with a thick layer of shit with rotting duck carcasses, maggots. The smell is overwhelming.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FRANCE 24:<\/strong> Filthy cages, a floor covered in excrement, and the carcasses of dead animals left to rot. Shocking images were released Thursday by animal rights group L214 purporting to show conditions at a duck breeding farm in southwest France where animals are raised for the foie gras industry. The group says the images were filmed this month following a tip-off from a whistleblower and are among \u201cthe worst farm conditions\u201d it has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis breeding farm is the height of horror,\u201d L214 co-founder S\u00e9bastien Arsac said on the group\u2019s website. \u201cThe ducks are locked up in collapsing cages, the ground is covered, and I&#8217;m sorry I can&#8217;t think of another word, covered with a thick layer of shit with rotting duck carcasses, maggots. The smell is overwhelming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon releasing the images L214 demanded the immediate closure of the breeding farm and just hours later, France\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture announced the site would be shut down. Local authorities are set to launch an investigation&#8230; The video once again puts the spotlight on animal welfare in France\u2019s foie gras industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20200821-height-of-horror-animal-rights-group-publishes-shocking-video-of-french-foie-gras-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZt1--dJEok\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE 24: Filthy cages, a floor covered in excrement, and the carcasses of dead animals left to rot. Shocking images were released Thursday by animal rights group L214 purporting to show conditions at a duck breeding farm in southwest France where animals are raised for the foie gras industry. The group says the images were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35],"class_list":["post-761244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761247,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761244\/revisions\/761247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/761263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}