France eager to ship cows to Algeria again

In Sète, 800 bull calves embark for Tunisia. The young males were loaded into trucks before dawn, about three hours' drive away, at Jérôme Larroque's farm. This trader chartered a boat to transport them to his customers in Tunisia. He sums up his job: “We buy them, we vaccinate them, we sell them.” It is also now necessary to disinsect them and ensure that they do not carry epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EMD), transmitted by biting midges. The disease detected for the first time in France in September did not cause a health cataclysm - it is not transmissible to humans, it is rarely fatal in cattle. On the other hand, it has shaken up trade: international trade is subject to new restrictions. However, France, with the largest cattle herd in the European Union, does not keep all the animals born on its soil. She sells a large part of her males in Italy, Spain and beyond. They will be fattened and slaughtered on site. On the French shores of the Mediterranean, Sète has just lost ...