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Mon dieu! French oysters under attack

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Photo: David Monniaux/Wikimedia Commons

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It’s been a tough summer for France’s oyster farmers. The farmers, and their bivalves, are being battered by everything from bureaucrats to bacteria. And true to French tradition, the farmers are threatening strikes and protests if the government doesn’t do something. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.

Click here for a BBC report on the illness plaguing France’s oysters.

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