In the spring of 2020, breeders Bernard and Sylvie Dahetze at Ozenx-Montestrucq in Béarn learned that all Blondes d’Aquitaine herds had to be cut due to a single case of tuberculosis detected in a single cow. The devastated couple will struggle to face this tragedy. Like most of their colleagues, they work hard to earn little. Farmers’ children often stop taking over family farms and farms disappear…
Three years ago, Bernard and Sylvie Dahetze went through hell. Fully enclosed breeders from Ozenx-Montestrucq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) had to decide to slaughter all the cows and calves in their herd. One of his animals tested positive for tuberculosis, which led to this decision, which was recommended by the Department of Population Protection (DDPP). After being powerless, they launched a distress call to Édouard Bergeon, the brilliant director of In the name of the earth (2019) with Guillaume Canet. He agreed to accompany them and modestly film the final hours of this terrible ordeal. The ones that separate them from the cattle going to the slaughterhouse. “I have a very strong bond with my animals,” breathes a very impressed Bernard. At the end of 2022, Édouard Bergeon, who has been supporting the couple for the past three years, also caught the long-awaited arrival of new cows. But this control of the DDPP, which brings back the demons of the past…
Cow Love on Sunday, March 5 at 20:55 at France 5
THOMAS GAETNER
Source: Programme Television
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