Is your meat safe? Mack discusses butchery hygiene
CEO for The South African Feedlot Association, Dewald Olivier, explains why it's important to support your butcher.
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a severe, highly contagious viral disease of livestock that has a significant economic impact.
The disease affects cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and other cloven-hoofed ruminants. Intensively reared animals are more susceptible to the disease than traditional breeds.
In 2019, FMD was a huge threat to livestock farmers in South Africa, to a point where it nearly affected the country's financial export meat products at large. Many livestock farmers have been living in fear, but working together with The Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza, Veterinarians from the State have been moving in and out of the farms since the outbreak to check on the animals affected and have been able to control the disease.
Sharing the good news is CEO for The South African Feedlot Association, Dewald Olivier and he went into detail how important it is to always keep your livestock in check, and went into detail about the hygiene at butcheries as well as the importance of building a relationship with your local butchery, and why you need to support them.