At the town hall of Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, emails from all over France have been raining non-stop for three days, expressing indignation at the slaughter, on October 30 and November 5, of thirty-five cattle which had been vegetating for eight years in a marsh, abandoned by a local breeder. “People criticize us for taking the easy way out. We try to respond to them with education,” we confide in the mayor's entourage.
The municipality justifies its slaughter order for reasons of public safety and health. With beasts gone wild, threatening to charge anyone who approaches, near a walking and cycling path along the Loire. Cows likely to contaminate other nearby herds, diseases having been identified by veterinary services, according to the town hall.
Avoid another disastrous winter
Mostly unidentified animals and, above all, very emaciated, suffering from malnutrition, some of which ended up dying of exhaustion, trapped in this marshland area, flooded when winter came. Eight bodies were counted last January, during the alert launched by a resident on social networks, with striking photos. The return of high tides, from…
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