France attempts to extinguish the fuse of the agricultural revolt over bovine dermatosis and Mercosur

The French government is trying at all costs to extinguish the spark of a new agrarian revolt that has ignited in the southwest of the country, the epicenter of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in cattle, with the visit to the region by the Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, and refusing to sign the free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). Genevard traveled to Toulouse coinciding with the start of the vaccination of between 600,000 and one million animals to map "a path of hope" for the ranchers, who have been multiplying their protests for days against the slaughter of cattle on farms where positive cases are detected and have carried out roadblocks and highway closures in the southwest of France. Although the minister showed herself open to studying the alternative proposals to slaughter put forward by some unions, she was firm in maintaining the current protocols to fight the disease, as they recently bore fruit in ...