Activists from Greenpeace France carried out an action, this Monday, July 10, 2023, in front of the Finistère prefecture in Quimper. They dumped nearly a ton of green algae whose proliferation is due to the rise of factory farms, they recall. One in two, according to the association, is located in Brittany. The prefect of Finistère condemns this action and announces that he is filing a complaint.
Nearly a ton of green algae was dumped on Monday, July 10, 2023, in front of the Finistère prefecture in Quimper. About fifteen activists from Greenpeace France carried out this operation in the early morning, unrolling several banners on which one could read in particular: Farm-factories: neither here nor elsewhere, polluted Brittany: guilty State or green algae: asphyxiated Brittany.* 100004*
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Straight into the wall
Activists denounce the State’s responsibility for the proliferation of green algae on the Breton coast, due to industrial farming and the development of factory farms on this territory. One in two, according to Greenpeace, is located in Brittany. More than 3,000 factory farms are counted in France and more than 25 million animals can be locked up in the 445 factory farms in Finistère, explains the association in a press release.
