Question 21939 — animals

Summary

Mr. Bruno Fuchs questions the Minister of Agriculture and Food about the transgression of prefectural regulatory standards by the “thousand cow farm” of Buigny-Saint-Maclou. The development of the site, supported by the State in the name of the economic and industrial development of the region, far exceeded the authorizations to which it was subject, and this with total impunity. We can be pleased that this type of intensive breeding does not does not yet constitute the norm in France. French agriculture preserves and must protect, and this is relatively exceptional in Europe, a dense network of small family dairy farms. Dairy farming remains the leading agricultural sector, with 90,000 farm managers, but this figure continues to decline due to competition from such establishments. Friday June 30, 2017, the judgment of the Amiens administrative court decides : “the factory farm of a thousand cows” is not in violation, owning more than 800 cows, even though the Somme prefecture has only ever issued an authorization for 500 cows. Legally, this decision is problematic: the court relies on the administrative rule of “silence constitutes acceptance”, namely that if the administration has not given its response to a request within two months, it is considered as positive. The problem lies in the fact that the Somme prefecture had nevertheless requested additional documents to complete the file during this period. The laxity shown by this factory farm sends the signal that such a model is viable; worse still, that it must be encouraged. Furthermore, such a decision seems unjustified from an environmental point of view. Even though for economic and ecological reasons the The Government is committed to promoting short circuits and reducing transport; such intensive operations which are harmful to the industry are protected from sanctions which nevertheless appear legitimate. He questions him about the possibility of intervention by the executive power, faced with the inaction of the prefecture in question, to effectively reduce the number of adult animals to 500 cattle, the threshold originally planned by the regulatory.

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