A piece of aluminum can she had ingested had killed her.
She died following a long agony, after pieces of tin had cut her bowels. Cruel is to say the least the fate of this poor cow in Granges, in the Canton of Friborg, Switzerland, victim, like millions of other animals, of the pollution we are generating.
“In a week he lost more than a hundred kilos. She no longer ate. She no longer drank. It was an agony ”, says sadly the farmer Jean Pierre Philipona, who in recent days witnessed helplessly the slow death of his cow.
A heartbreaking disappearance and an even more painful revelation: the vet, analyzing the carcass, found that the cow's entrails were lacerated and a piece of aluminum can had killed her that he had ingested.
“You cannot imagine the waste I find in my fields”, Philipona confesses embittered.
And indeed, even here, in places that seem uncontaminated, the peri-urban areas remain the most affected: aluminum and plastic waste they are shredded by farmers' machines and end up in feed. These are very sharp materials that inevitably reach the stomach of grazing animals. Tiny, almost impossible to remove.
"Fatal cases are very rare, but the ingestion of foreign bodies remains a very big problem," says cantonal veterinarian Grégoire Seitert.
From the lion factories in South Africa to the swan beaten to death in Recoaro, to the thousands of cases of plastic ingested by fish all over the world, but what are we doing to our animal friends?
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