The Minister for Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, has once again insisted on the Government’s support for the livestock sector, which supports “with facts”, settling the controversy that arose as a result of the declarations of the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, to the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ about the sector.
“I have little left to add in this regard other than support for a sector that is strategic for the Government, and fundamentally it is what we try to value every day. It is a strategic sector that we support with facts”, assured the spokeswoman for the Executive at the press conference after the Council of Ministers.
This Tuesday, COAG has asked the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, to put a stop to the process of ‘uberization‘ of the field and the start-up of macro-farms.
Specifically, the general secretary of COAG, Michael Padilla, has met with Garzón to define a worksheet that enhances the model of small and medium-sized professional livestock farms against the ‘uberization’ of the countryside.
This is the second meeting held by the Minister of Consumer Affairs with agricultural organizations after meeting last week with UPA in the midst of the controversy over his statements to the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ in which he pointed to the export of Spanish meat products of poorer quality from intensive livestock farms.
During said meeting, UPA asked Garzón that his Ministry make an effort to move forward with a differentiation with a label for food produced in family agriculture and livestock farms to demonstrate the quality of these products and achieve fair prices.
“People have to differentiate that agriculture and family farming is a guarantee of quality in consumption,” Ramos stressed after the meeting with the Minister of Consumption, whom he invited to visit livestock farms with different production models in Madrid and Galicia, once the elections in Castilla y León have passed.