Sickly Animals Remind the World of Fragile Food Trade

Lethargic chickens with swollen heads or cattle with maggots burrowing into their flesh — these are effects of diseases that have been disrupting global trade.

Outbreaks of animal diseases across the world are yet another problem for flows of foodstuffs that have been hampered by the pandemic, war and tariffs. They’re driving nations to put up trade restrictions on meat, as well as live animals, as part of efforts to prevent a similar fate for their own flocks and herds.