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Paraguay: empty abattoirs as FMD takes its toll

17/02/2012

The president of Paraguay’s meat industry association (CPC), Luis Pettengill, has complained that many of the country’s abattoirs are lying idle because cattle are not coming for slaughter. Paraguay, which suffered an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in September 2011, is in the middle of a new vaccination campaign against the disease and Mr...

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