Local Efforts to Map Cancer Cases in Lescout, France

Near the village of Lescout there is a big hen factory farm, currently farming 185,000 hens. Within the community of Lescout, affected by a hen factory farm located only a few hundred meters away, inhabitants complain of smells and noise. At the time the photo was taken, some inhabitants expressed towards Greenpeace France that they suspected the presence of harmful substances in the environment. This map, created by a local resident, is an attempt to collect data on incidents of cancer and cancer-related deaths in the different areas of the village. A cause-effect link between cancer and exposure to substances released by the farm has not been proven. However, according to the map created by local residents, most cases are recorded in the old portion of the village north of the factory farm in the direction of dominant winds while they are less frequent in the new areas further from the farm.