Woman’s Eyes Possibly Affected by Factory Farm in Lescout, France

Near the small village of Lescout there is a big hen factory farm, currently farming 185,000 hens. In this picture, N., 62 years old, who prefers to keep her name anonymous, is administering drops to her eye to keep it hydrated. She has lived in Lescout for almost thirty years and is the only survivor of two cases of eye cancer recorded in the village, an extremely rare form of cancer. At the time of a visit by Greenpeace France, locals expressed their concerns on what according to their calculations is an extraordinary high rate of cancer in the area.
N. was lucky that the tumour did not affect her brain. Even though the malignant disease is healed, N.’s vision remains affected: “Today, I only have a few tenths of vision left in the right eye, which almost no longer restores the colors, and the straight lines appear curved. I prefer not to think of an evolution of my condition, and keep up the morale.” N. recalls: “My doctors couldn’t identify the cause of my tumour, but they mentioned it could be caused possibly by the factory farm.”