{"id":14056,"date":"2025-10-29T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-meat-producers-challenges-industry-for-foot-and-mouth-disease-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:43","slug":"sa-meat-producers-challenges-industry-for-foot-and-mouth-disease-funds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-meat-producers-challenges-industry-for-foot-and-mouth-disease-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"SA meat producers challenges industry\u00a0for foot and mouth disease funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South African (SA) red meat producers, farmers and abattoirs are challenging industry bodies to account for funds meant to curb the spread of foot and mouth disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They say they have been paying for prevention efforts for years, yet outbreaks continue, with little transparency on how the funds are being used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA is dealing with 274 unresolved outbreaks across five provinces of which 180 are in KwaZulu-Natal Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The situation has been made worse by limited vaccine availability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The lawyer representing the livestock producers says they are following the provisions envisaged in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act in an attempt to get answers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Director and head of litigation at VDM, attorney Ann-Suhet Marx, says despite the payment, head of slaughtered cattle levy, the spread of foot and mouth disease continues, market access is collapsing, and red meat prices are soaring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIvhFohwZCo?si=bxdurhHgY7J4yw1e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14057,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14056","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"The spread of foot and mouth disease","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18891,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14056\/revisions\/18891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}