Rural coordination and the peasant confederation found common ground tuesday,July 22,a frequent occurrence in Lot-et-Garonne. Beyond the election of Karine Duc, the new president of the Chamber of Agriculture of Lot-et-Garonne, and the presentation of her team and roadmap, discussions centered on nodular dermatosis.This disease is a meaningful concern for farmers in Lot-et-garonne.
Marion Debats, spokesperson for the Confédération Paysanne, voiced her apprehension regarding the virus’s spread. Transmitted by insects, it has already affected approximately thirty farms in Savoy and Haute-Savoie. Debats described nodular dermatosis as a serious illness causing painful nodules and fever, perhaps weakening dairy production or an animal’s overall health.She emphasized that it is not transmitted to humans and that milk and meat remain safe. The disease is not fatal in most cases.
“Why This Relentlessness?”
A breeder highlighted the management and veterinary services’ practice of ordering untimely slaughterings as soon as a single cow tests positive within a herd. “Why this relentlessness? why not test? Isolate? Cure? Vaccinate?” the breeder questioned. “Why inflict on breeders what many are calling a real massacre today? I think of this savoy breeder,Pierre-Jean,28,with agricultural loans up to 600,000 euros,and soon nothing. No more cows. No more milk.No more future.”
During the July 22 session, the director of the DDECSPP de Lot-et-Garonne, Viviane Dupuy-Christophe, stated that test kits were being provided for the department. The peasant confederation and rural coordination strongly opposed total slaughter, asking how animals could develop immunity if they were killed at the first sign of infection. Karine Duc, the new president of the Lot-et-Garonne Chamber of Agriculture, assured that the situation was being closely monitored and that such measures would not be implemented in Lot-et-Garonne. “Here, in Lot-et-garonne, it won’t happen like that. We won’t let it go,” she stated.
France began vaccinating nearly 285,000 cattle over the weekend to curb the disease’s propagation in the Alps.
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