BEZMER: When Vanya Dimitrova received the Bulgarian veterinary services’ notice to kill her pigs because of African swine fever, she was shocked.No outbreaks of the disease — which is menacing countries around the world, including China and swaths of Europe — have been recorded in her area.While authorities say backyard farming is allowing the epidemic to spread, villagers are angry about orders to kill their pigs around outbreak sites and, in Bulgaria, even around uninfected industrial farms.“It can’t be right to slaughter healthy animals… In fact, it’s all about saving the big farmers with the big money, and getting us, …read more
Source:: theSun
