‘I come and sit in an empty farm every day’: the hidden trauma behind foot and mouth disease

Every day, Sotiris Kadis still drives out to his farm. He unlocks the gates, walks through the yard and sits for a while among the empty pens where hundreds of sheep once stood. Now there is nothing left to feed, nothing left to milk and nothing left to tend.

For the first time in his entire life, there are no animals waiting for him.

“I cannot describe what we went