After clashes at a farm in southern France and the culling of 208 cows, tensions are rising between some agricultural unions and the government, which has stuck to its contested disease prevention strategy.

Hundreds of farmers had created a cordon around a farm near the Spanish border after authorities said that 200 cows had a disease and would have to be slaughtered.

LES BORDES SURE ARIZE: Veterinarians arrived at a French farm Friday under police escort to slaughter a herd of cows suffering from a potentially deadly disease, an AFP reporter…