The importation of meat in front of the grounds for lowering high meat prices did not reduce meat prices and caused other troubles. Beef imports in the first in Europe, while Turkey ranked second in the world, which, it turns out many kinds of diseases in most of the imported animals. Every day, a new one is added to diseased imports that put people's health at risk. Poland, Serbia, Brazil and Russia, including a total of 26 countries from which Turkey imports 'disease imports' and 'diseased imports' comes and goes in a vicious cycle.
After a few scandals, a large number of 4,000 bovine animals brought from Brazil on a farm connected to the Meat and Milk Association in Gölbaşı, Ankara, have turned their eyes into re-meat imports due to an anthrax.
President of Turkish Veterinary Union Talat Gözet:
Veterinary unit will oversee animal disease in Turkey is not enough. In a country where so many animal imports are made, animal diseases are inevitable in a country with so much animal activity. The change made with the new livestock regulation puts the health of the people into a big risk.
We were the first in Europe to import cattle and the second in the world because government officials returned with a meat agreement after every visit abroad. While we were one of the few self-sufficient countries 20 years ago, we now import meat from 26 countries, including Poland, Bosnia, Serbia, Brazil, Sudan and Russia. With imports of livestock becoming a national policy, diseases that occur in imported animals have begun to threaten the health of the citizens. The 'mad cow disease' in 3,000 cattle we first got from Poland and the 'Blue Language' disease spreading from Greece and Bulgaria threatened our country. In addition, Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry imported 20 tons (20 thousand 43 kilograms) of bovine carcasses imported from Bosnia and Herzegovina was found to be harmful to human health. Finally, on a farm connected to the Meat and Milk Institute (ESK) in Gölbaşı, Ankara, 4 thousand cattle animals brought from Brazil were lost due to anthrax. While the quarantine still continues in the region, the surrounding citizens are worried about the spread of the hryvnia.
Ahmet Yücesan, Head of Association of Red Meat Industry and Producers Association:
The disease is the import itself. There is now 'blue tongue' disease in Europe. Instead of importing animals, we must breed our own animals. The animal population needs to change in order to prevent animal imports.
* In 2010 we imported 300 tons of meat from Serbia, which is not among the meat importable countries.
* In 2011 we imported 3 thousand beef cattle from Poland with "mad cow".
* We are the only country that imports meat from France, which has a 'blue language' disease in 2015.
* In 2017, we imported 500 thousand animals from Romania with "cattle pasteurellozu".
* In 2017, 20 tons of bovine carcasses imported from Bosnia and Herzegovina were identified as "E. coli O157", which is harmful to human health.
* In 2017 we imported 5 thousand tons of lob meat from Serbia, which is unknown to which animal it belongs.
* Citizens could not go out on the streets due to the smell spreading from the ship of Samsun to the place where 7,374 cattle were loaded from Brazil in 2018.
* In August 2018, 4 thousand bovine animals imported from Brazil had anthrax.