1. Because farmers refused to leave without their cattle, Zomerdyk said, livestock was transported to drier places after the human evacuation. 2. In areas near the German border, farmers now need to obtain official permission before transporting livestock. 3. In Germany, where there have been scares but no confirmed cases, the railroad company Deutsche Bahn said it would stop transporting livestock. 4. It also requires that livestock that is being transported is protected from the elements, and that the animals are unloaded immediately after they arrive at their destination. 5. It also reinstated a nationwide ban on transporting livestock that had been lifted just two days earlier, and extended it to cover chickens. 6. Ministry official Bela Takacs told the daily Nepszava that exceptions are being made mainly for trucks transporting livestock. 7. Pressured by animal rights groups, Britain urged its European Union partners Monday to improve conditions under which livestock is transported to slaughterhouses across the continent. 8. South Korean officials have been slaughtering infected animals, quarantining farms and forbidding them to transport livestock. 9. The Dutch government halted exports and reinstated a nationwide ban on transporting livestock that had been lifted just two days earlier, extending it to cover chickens. 10. The government swiftly reinstated a nationwide ban on transporting livestock that had been lifted just two days earlier. |