Slaughterhouse

Livestock breeders are making anguished calls for an arrangement to be found, so that at least some slaughterhouses can be opened in the areas where there are no cases of the cattle plague that has swept through the country. The closure of slaughterhouses due to cattle plague is bearing hard on breeders.

The wholesale meat market at Rentis now sells lambs from Romania and Spain, as local slaughterhouses have shut down as part of the effort to eradicate cattle plague.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has imposed a ban on the fishing of some endemic species, according to a new regulation published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 11.

Minister of Rural Development Kostas Tsiaras announced that traditional August 15 festivities will take place without lamb, hinting that slaughterhouses across the country are expected to remain closed next week.

"We will be without lamb on August 15," Tsiaras stated in an interview with Skai TV.

Almost a month after the plague outbreak in Greece and we are officially counting 35 cases and 14,000 animals killed.

Representatives of farmers have walked out of talks with the government, announcing a new protest rally, after the ruling coalition tabled a bill introducing what has been labelled as animal police.

Spanish slaughterhouses will have to install video surveillance to ensure animals are not mistreated before being killed, the government has announced, claiming a first in the EU.

From July 31 to Monday, August 5, a state of emergency was declared in the Northern Bulgarian region of Silistra because of a confirmed case of African Swine Fever in a pig-breeding farm in the village of Popina. The Regional Food Safety Directorate will organize a 12-hour inspection at slaughterhouses in Dulovo, Tutrakan, and Sitovo in the area.

Poland has exported a total of 2,700 kilograms of suspicious beef to several European countries, which is currently withdrawing from the markets, Econ.bg reports.

Knickers the steer is the current obsession of the internet. The steer — which is basically a neutered bull — stands a whopping 6 feet 4 inches from hoof to shoulder and towers above other cows when he stands in an Australian field with them. His owner admits that the sudden surge of attention is inexplicable.