Alice Adderley
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When Manon Roux, a lab technician from western France, first met six-year-old Gustave, it was love at first sight. He was an abandoned piglet who'd been taken in by neighbours when she was living in Montreal in Canada in 2018.
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She says adopting the pigs is a way of encouraging people to change their view of them as animals for human consumption. She's now adopted a second pig named Leon and both pigs now live inside her home. She says every person who has met them realises that a pig is a very interesting animal and she would like people to see them as more than just animals used for their meat.
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Gustave also regularly visits Manon's workplace at the local university, where her desk is decorated with pig pictures. She says this allows the pigs to become less wary of other humans, as pigs usually have a reaction of fear, being prey animals. The sight of the animal delights her colleagues.
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Every year for around the last six centuries, the Krakelingen Festival has seen costumed locals and dignitaries parade through the town towards a 100-meter-high hill called Oudenburg. At the top of the hill, the mayor, the priest and town administrators, dressed as druids, throw thousands of ring-shaped bread crackers, known as Krakeling, onto the crowd below.
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The round-shaped roll is said to symbolize the seasons or the cycle of life. But before they embark on this tradition, the dignitaries have to drink a small living fish from a 400-year-old silver cup of wine. It's thought to symbolise the transition from winter to spring, as the gudgeon, a small freshwater fish, rise to the surface of ponds after winter, as spring begins.
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But it's now been banned because of new animal welfare legislation. Costumed locals protested against the change at this year's event held on Sunday, holding up banners saying, I want fish. But Ben Weitz, the Vice Minister President of Flanders in the Flemish Parliament, says it's time to respect the law and move on.
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However, this Sunday the town's mayor joined the protesters and said Flanders must take into account cultural historical arguments and that he hoped the law would be overturned. But animal rights campaigners are adamant that the ban should be upheld and say traditions are no excuse for cruelty to animals.