Lesvos livestock farmers: “No” to mass culling due to foot-and-mouth disease, immediate vaccination program demanded

Livestock farmers successful Lesvos are demanding that the slaughter of full herds wherever cases of foot-and-mouth illness are detected beryllium stopped, that a cosmopolitan vaccination programme beryllium implemented, that protestation blockades astatine the larboard of Mytilene beryllium supported, and that the competent veterinary services behaviour an epidemiological survey connected the illness connected the island. These demands were decided yesterday by cooperatives and cultivation associations of Western Lesvos.

As agreed astatine their gathering held connected the evening of Sunday, April 19, astatine the Community office successful Antissa, farmers volition today, Monday, effort to forestall the slaughter of an full herd successful the country of Filia, wherever a lawsuit of foot-and-mouth illness was detected.

During the meeting, the request to support Lesvos’ livestock was emphasized, particularly the section Lesvos sheep breed, which produces beverage with unsocial characteristics. Veterinarian Giannis Tsakiris supported the request for a 10-day suspension of herd culling, truthful that humor sampling tin beryllium carried retired to alteration an epidemiological study, paving the mode for wide vaccinations.

A akin presumption was expressed by Manolis Konstantidellis, manager and caput of the Mesotopos Cooperative, who besides supported wide vaccination of animals successful Lesvos alternatively of wide culling.

It is noted that since yesterday, residents of 1 of the island’s astir important livestock areas, Mesotopos, person blocked entree to their area, preventing the implementation of herd culling programs and allowing lone humor sampling to instrumentality place.