Brazil takes a shipment of live cattle to Vietnam for the first time

This is a shipment of around 14,000 specimens that arrived on the night of September 23 at the port of Thi Vai. Although the route is much longer, the cattle would be priced competitively with Australia, whose second largest buyer of cattle is Vietnam. As reported by the ABC portal of Australia, the shipment occurs at a difficult time for the Brazilian livestock industry, since the MV Nada ship was heading to the Asian country when it was learned that China closed its purchases due to the two cases of "mad cow" in Brazil. Indeed, the ship was on its 30-day journey when the news of the atypical cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in two plants in the South American country was known. (Read: The countries that banned the entry of meat from Brazil due to cases of "mad cow") Consultant Michael Patching assured the Australian media that the news of the arrival generated concern in the sector, but stressed that the first reports suggested a low mortality rate of cattle in ...