French farmers blockade highways to protest lumpy skin disease culls + VIDEO
French farmers blockade highways to protest lumpy skin disease culls + VIDEO
FRENCH cattle producers blockaded major highways with tractors and set fire to hay bales on Saturday to protest their government’s strict response to an outbreak of lumpy skin disease (LSD).
Farming industry representatives say the policy of compulsory whole-herd culling when a single infected animal is detected is heavy-handed and economically devastating, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
The protests follow the destruction of entire cattle herds in parts of south-west France, including
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