Alexis Tsipras said he visited a livestock unit where the owner had been forced to cull about 600 sheep 13 months ago. He conveyed that the farmer struggled to return to the barn after the culling and was still not well. Tsipras argued that the handling of zoonoses in Greece was based on mass culling instead of vaccination, resulting, as he stated, in a significant decrease in animal production. He attributed this choice to the government's effort to avoid disclosing problems at OPEKEPE. He claimed that vaccination would lead the relevant EU committees to require a record of livestock, which, according to him, would show that more than half of the subsidies were fictitious and were received by officials affiliated with New Democracy who did not produce. He added that the reconstitution of herds should begin immediately and be fully covered by European resources, according to European rules. He described the situation of the farmers as a cry of anguish, emphasizing that both their survival and their ability to remain in production were at stake. He accused the government of choosing a clientelist network over production and called for a struggle to end what he called a mockery and for farmers to receive what they were entitled to so they could continue to live in their place. #κτηνοτροφία #αγροτικέςπολιτικές #ζωικήπαραγωγή (translated)
