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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Cattle Culling at Le Tour de France
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:55:51 -0500
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On 7/25/2025 7:45 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
> Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> writes:
> 
>> Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Tour de France organisers have edited what was set to be an enthralling
>>>>> day in the Alps to avoid cow culling taking place near the stage 19 route.
>>>>>
>>>>> The discovery of a contagious disease amongst cattle has meant the route
>>>>> will be shortened from 129.9km to just 95km with two climbs – the 11.3km
>>>>> Cote d’Hery-sur-Ugine and the 13.7km Col des Saisies – removed.
>>>>>
>>>>> An outbreak of nodular dermatitis meant the affected herd has needed to
>>>>> be culled and race organisers have taken the decision to divert the
>>>>> route in light of “distress” amongst those farmers concerned."
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling/stage-19-route-map-today-tour-de-france-2025-cows-b2795826.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah I shall watch later today probably the catch-up though depending on how
>>>> much shorter might watch the entire show.
>>>>
>>>> My brain finds watching sports more exhausting than doing said sports!
>>>
>>> Can't be half as exhausting as having to kill all your cows.
>>>
>>
>> I suspect it’s more expensive and worrying depending on the level of
>> government support, in my experience hill farming isn’t a particularly
>> lucrative, nor has it ever been so.
> 
> Not sure I take your point.  Imagine spending a good part of your life
> trying to build something up, in this case, a herd of cows.  Doing
> whatever you can to nurture, protect, and improve them.  Sure, they're
> made of beef, and one would have to be quite sentimental to let one get
> old, but they live and breathe and grow on a person.
> 
> Then, for reasons (perhaps good, I don't know), you have to kill them
> all and dump them in a pit.  I think that might just put me in a bad
> mood, government support or no.
> 

+1

Long history of that, from the swine flu culls of the 1920s 
down to today. The compensation still leaves farmers very 
short and as you note bereft.

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