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(6 years ago)Gheorghe Danulletiu, also known as Ghita Ciobanul [Gibani], has more than 500 thousand Facebook followers after making an ad that had become viral, but he leads a modest life as a traditional shepherd. Shepherding and caring for 1,000 and 500 sheep in western Romania, life [...]
Shepherding and caring for 1,000 and 500 sheep in western Romania, Danuletti's life changes according to seasons. When lambs are born in the spring, he can hardly sleep for four hours, while in winter he takes the sheep on a three - to four - week journey from the mountains to the cattle pasture.
Even when the temperature descends below 100 degrees Fahrenheit [30 ° C], Danulette sleeps with his animals, wrapped them in sheep's skins under the fire sky, and willing to protect his flock in the event of wolf attack, he translates Periscope.
I took this job from my father who had several hundred sheep, but I love it, I love animals,” says Danulletiu.
However, like all Romanian herders with small and medium schools, Danulletiu is finding it difficult in a market dominated by animal export, large farmers and hypermarkets.
“The sheep's Bazaar is made for a joke,” he says. “We sell one sheep for 20 euros. I can't afford to pay good salaries and find workers with young people are seeing this job going down. I get the impression that this is political, that they're trying to destroy the sector. ”
The export of live animals, Periscopi, has become a crude industry for Romania. In November, the world saw in shock how more than 14,000 sheep sank at the Black Sea port on their way to Saudi Arabia.
So far few people have even been aware of the export trade rate with living animals in Romania. In fact, in 2018, Romania exported 357m euros, becoming Europe's largest animal exporter and tenth in the world.
Farmers are trapped in an impossible situation. Despite deep roots in Roman culture, sheep consume only the Passover. Moreover, most sheep have mixed meat.
The Romanian government has formed an agricultural commission to draft a new law on export to living animals, which would make Romania responsible for the animal situation not only to the export point, but to the point where they reach their destination. If adopted, the law would become the first in Europe.
Under the new law, it would become mandatory for sheep to have veterinarians while exporting. /Periscope
