Gruesome footage from a French foie gras factory shows thousands of ducklings being thrown into bins and left to starve or suffocate to death. The footage was secretly filmed by a whistleblower at the award-winning Domaine de la Peyrouse factory in Coulounieix-Chamiers, on the outskirts of the Dordogne capital Perigueux. The distressing footage shows female ducklings, which can't be used to make foie gras, being callously discarded and thrown alive into large wheelie bins and left to die. Eggs that are thrown away often hatch in the bins but the ducklings are left to perish. The factory is also a training facility connected to the Lycee Agricole de Perigueux - an agricultural high school that teaches students how to produce foie gras.

Source: Daily Mail December 11, 2019 16:10 UTC