Farmers sprayed manure on government offices and kept up roadblocks in southern France on Sunday in protest against a mass cull of cows as officials urged Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to urgently intervene.
Many farmers in southern and southwest France have been incensed by the use of police force and the government’s mass slaughter policy to contain the spread of nodular dermatitis, widely known as lumpy skin disease.
Farmers have blocked roads after veterinarians on Friday slaughtered a...
French farmers spray manure, block roads over cow ‘mass slaughter’ policy
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Source: scmp.com

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