US EditionFarmers Call for French Blockades over Cow Disease Cull
- French farmers are protesting government policy to slaughter entire herds if one cow has lumpy skin disease.
- Over 3,000 cows have been culled in France due to lumpy skin disease outbreaks since June 2022, mostly in the east and southwest.
- Farmers used tractors and trees to block roads to prevent officials from culling over 200 cows at a farm in Ariege.
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Peasant crisis, season 2 ? Nearly two years after the farmers' movement, which had given cold sweats to Emmanuel Macron and his newly appointed Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, the tractors are, again, out. On Saturday, in Albi, Castres, Quimper or Mont-de-Marsan, the breeders expressed their distress and their anger, while some of them saw their cattle suffering from contagious nodular dermatosis (DNC) slaughtered. In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, th…
The French farmers blocked the roads and threw the fences near the offices of public institutions to protest against the decision of the authorities to sacrifice cattle after nodular dermatosis. In response, France decided to vaccinate a million heads of life in the following weeks against nodulous dermatosis, according to News, which reads Reuters.
France to vaccinate cattle for lumpy skin disease as farmers protest against cull
By Mathieu Rosemain and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in the coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Saturday, as protesting farmers blocked roads in opposition to the government’s large-scale culling policy. The announcement comes after several outbreaks of the highly contagious disease prompted authorities to order the culling of enti…
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