A giant piggery is causing outrage in Brittany

By signing the decree governing the extension of the 12,000-place mega-pig pen in Llandudnoes this week, the prefect of Finisterre confirms Brittany as France’s first pig-breeding region. In fact, it only confirmed a fact, because this above-ground industrial agriculture, despite the unfavorable opinion of the public survey in 2015, had gained 1^eh April 2016 temporary prefectural decision. This allowed the owner of the area, Philippe Bisien, who is also the chairman of the regional pork committee, to double his piggery. An investment of more than 2.4 million euros for 1.5 jobs created out of a total of 6.5.

But with this decision, the representative of the state contributes to this picturesque and touristic corner of France becoming a place where pig feed silos are higher than granite church domes. Currently, more than one in two pigs comes from this region, which represents only 5% of France’s surface. As a result…