Colombette Fair in Toulouse: “goldfish are not toys!”
The Paz association for the defense of animals denounces the illegal conditions in which goldfish are displayed and sold at the Colombette fair. She wrote to the mayor to enforce the law. The goldfish is a domestic animal that cannot be the subject of a lottery…
When it comes to the animal condition, there is no small cause. And Amandine Sanvisens, co-founder of the Paris animal association Zoopolis (Paz) is angry. When she discovered goldfish aquariums on a duck fishing stall at the Foire de la Colombette, which is currently in full swing, her blood boiled. “The fish are contained in totally unsuitable conditions,” she explains. They are tiny plastic boxes with small volumes of water, without aerators, oxygen or caches, piled up in deplorable conditions”. The controversy may seem secondary to you, but reducing the goldfish, a living animal, to the state of a toy is against the law. “Articles L214-4 and L214-7 of the Rural Code prohibit offering pets in lottery. However, the goldfish is classified as a domestic animal by the decree of August 11, 2006 published in the official journal, recalls Amandine Sanvisens. It is important that the town halls take up the subject”.
“You have to tell children that goldfish are sentient beings”
The Paz association immediately wrote to the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, to ask him to enforce the law. “The municipal or national police must intervene to remove the goldfish,” she asks. It is about the strict application of legal texts. We must impose on the persons in charge of this stand, as well as on the organizers of the event, to withdraw the goldfish from the proposed lots. The city must ensure that this does not happen again during the next editions of the funfair”. The association encourages the town hall not to authorize the allocation of pitches at festivals, fairs, markets and flea markets to people who do not comply with these legal provisions. “Our society must teach children that animals are sentient beings and not objects of entertainment”, pleads Amandine Sanvisens. CQFD!