Pigs used for experiments at the CICE in Clermont-Ferrand: we are taking the matter to the authorities and the courts
Mutilated, sutured, killed and discarded like waste: after revealing the living and transport conditions of piglets from Ferme Guy to the International Centre for Endoscopic Surgery (CICE), we want to shed light on these “training programmes”. We are therefore now requesting documents from the relevant ministry and the Puy-de-Dôme prefecture and are filing a complaint against the farm.
Our investigation, conducted with Camp Beagle Gannat, into the pigs used for experimentation at the CICE could only lead to immediate, tailormade action being taken against this establishment and its supplier.
Are the experiments compliant with the regulations? We want to be sure!
We already know that the CICE uses animals even though the law recommends using alternative methods to animal experimentation whenever possible. But does it even comply with the relevant legislation? Does it have all the necessary authorisations to carry out these experiments? To find out, we have asked the Ministry of Research and the prefecture to send us all the documents relating to the establishment’s use of piglets.
It is difficult to imagine that throwing their corpses into the same bin as plastic bottles, bed pads and needles should comply strictly with regulations. The authorities have two months to respond to our questions.
A farm that revels in abuse and illegality
The authorities will also have to provide us with a copy of the approval sent to Ferme Guy, if it does indeed have the right to deliver individuals to be put under the scalpels.
Within this sordid operation, mistreatment seems to be the norm. The farmer himself does not see the problem. In the press, he states that he does not “feel like [he] treats [his] animals badly”. He admits to having treated a sow suffering from prolapse himself, going so far as to suture her vagina without even wearing gloves after pushing her organs back into her body, considering himself as competent as a novice veterinarian… These practices, which are completely illegal, are punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of €30,000.
We have therefore filed a complaint against the owner of Ferme Guy for illegally practising veterinary medicine and animal surgery, mistreatment and acts of cruelty.
To put an end to the suffering of the pigs used for experimentation at this training centre, please sign our petitions calling for an end to the use of animals by the CICE and the closure of the supplying farm.