Document type: article from Réussir Bovins viande
Author: S Bourgeois
Preview: The AALVie association (for the promotion of the on-farm slaughtering of animals) launched its project plans at a press conference on July 7, 2020. A call for participatory financing has been launched with the intention of beginning work in autumn 2021.
This sum will cover work such as feasibility studies, the production of a health plan and the creation of a constitution for the company, up to the laying of the first brick.
Two fixed carcassing units are planned, one at Machecoul in the Loire Atlantique and the other at Plessé. The animals will be gutted, skinned and carcassed there. To each of these fixed units will be attached a dozen mobile slaughtering units spread over about sixty kilometres among the region's livestock farms.
"Each unit will process 1500 tons annually, that is about 4500 head of cattle per year (20 per day). We will start with 2,000 to 2,500 animals per year per unit," says Guylain Pageot, president of AALVie. We should be able to hire about 15 people for each of the two units. The total budget to be set in place is 7 million euros. AALVie aims to take abattoir services back to the farms at a cost similar to that of conventional methods.
A société coopérative d'intérêt collectif (scic) SA will be created. "It is the farmers who are keeping us on course and our partners, including artisan butchers, slaughterers and communities, ... will participate in funding the project and will be involved in its governance. »
NB: FRCAW considers it important to point out that on-farm slaughtering - using mobile units of whatever size - remain a marginal part of the industry. Given the extensive abattoir trade in France, it will not be possible for on-farm slaughter to completely replace fixed abattoirs. Accordingly, other actions need to be taken in addition to these initiatives, such as improving the local coverage of slaughterhouses to reduce transport times and thus minimise animal stress.
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