Livestock breeders demand meeting with Christodoulides amid foot and mouth outbreak

Livestock breeders on Saturday demanded to meet President Nikos Christodoulides amid the ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease, with their representative Christodoulos Christodoulou describing the government’s handling of the outbreak as “unacceptable”.

“The government is unacceptable. They plan for tomorrow, they do not care about today,” he said after a meeting Stavros Malas, the man appointed by the government to head the scientific committee formed in the wake of the outbreak.