French individuals like to eat frogs — or so the stereotype goes.
However one truthful within the metropolis of Vittel in japanese France has gone too far, environmentalists warn, with guests being slated to eat some 7 metric tons of frog legs over one single weekend.
The trigger for issues facilities round how many of the frogs the 1000’s of tourists get to style are imported from easterly locales, environmentalists mentioned.
“For this occasion alone, as much as 350,000 frogs are caught, particularly in Indonesia and Turkey, the place frog populations are already in alarming decline,” Charlotte Nithart, of French nongovernmental group Robin des Bois, mentioned in a press release. “Within the EU, such a nature looting coupled with such merciless killing strategies wouldn’t be allowed, so the logical consequence should be to cease imports.”
Sandra Altherr from the German group Professional Wildlife mentioned in the identical assertion that it was an pointless apply. “Do the guests know that for his or her snacks, frogs are amputated alive on the opposite facet of the world?”
France imports dozens of tons of the amphibians’ legs annually, based on commerce statistics.
It is the forty ninth version of the occasion, and runs this Saturday and Sunday.
