Salamanca, Apr 12 (EFE).- Hundreds of ranchers, some 3,000 according to the organizers and a thousand according to police sources, gathered in Salamanca on Wednesday before the Territorial Delegation of the Junta de Castilla y León to protest the management of the animal health.
With cowbells, banners and whistles, they have staged a whistle at the problems they are having in the health campaigns against tuberculosis in the province of Salamanca, as Juan Luis Delgado, spokesman for the United Ganaderos Platform, convener of this protest, explained to the journalist. .
Uneven and precarious campaign
This platform has been set up by agricultural and livestock organizations in the province of Salamanca, by cooperatives, dealers or town halls as a result of “discomfort and little progress in the fight against tuberculosis”, added Delgado.
“Tuberculosis itself is improving over the years, but Salamanca and the southern half of the province do not follow the same pattern as the north of the peninsula. That shows that there is something beyond the control of this test. We will end tuberculosis in cows if we end cows, but we would not end tuberculosis itself, since there are forty other species that share the same disease”, he has indicated.
Cattle herd at risk
Another of the platform’s spokespersons, Jacinto Sánchez, stressed that the tuberculosis problem is “of all the ranchers” because it makes it “increasingly impossible for them to continue with this way of life”, and has praised the support given to the concentration because “from the unit we will work to be able to live from the trade”.
For his part, Alfonso Castilla, mayor of the municipality of Peralejos de Abajo (PP) and representative of the town halls on the platform, has transmitted to the administrations that “either the farmers are listened to or they will not stop” with this concentration.
In defense of livestock
“We are not going to stop until we achieve our objectives, which is to improve life in the rural world. They not only kill the economic engine of the towns, which is the countryside, but the towns. They fill their mouths when talking about the demographic challenge but with this they give the sector one more lace. If the countryside is not supported, it is not helped, we end the rural world ”, he added.
Along with the protest – the farmers have delivered a manifesto to the territorial delegate, Eloy Ruiz – they have requested to meet with the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, and with the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Gerardo Dueñas . EFE