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Goat and Sheep Farmers Criticize Pippi: “They Didn’t Even Have Suits, They Asked Us for Them”

Published February 24, 2026, 12:09
Goat and Sheep Farmers Criticize Pippi: “They Didn’t Even Have Suits, They Asked Us for Them”

Goat and sheep farmers are expressing strong dissatisfaction and outrage over the way the foot-and-mouth disease crisis is being handled by the Veterinary Services. They accuse the director of the Veterinary Services, Christodoulos Pippi, of publicly targeting farms without evidence and demand a public apology. Farmers emphasize that they risk losing their livelihoods, as their farms are facing total loss, while questioning the effectiveness of the measures taken. They point out that there was no timely and written notification of the designation of pastures as infected, resulting in the continued spread of the disease. They also leave open the possibility of importing infected manure or feed from the occupied territories, while emphasizing that the farms being targeted had informed the Veterinary Services from the beginning about the existence of a problem.