He has remarked that “we have more pigs than inhabitants and their meat is mainly for export.”
The Navarra Platform against macro-farms has organized a demonstration this Saturday to reject industrial livestock farming and demand a change in the model that focuses on “food sovereignty”.
The mobilization took place this afternoon in front of the Monument to the Fueros on Paseo Sarasate in Pamplona/Iruña, where a banner with the motto ‘STOP industrial livestock. They will not shut us up’. Posters have also been seen calling for support for the rural world and for food sovereignty.
In a statement, the platform has criticized that “with only 3% of the active population in the countryside in a very aged sector with little success, the only model favored to date is agribusiness that burns the land, poisons the water, and makes the products dizzy thousands of miles to return unhealthy, processed food of uncertain origin and unaffordable prices”.
As he stated, “currently in Navarra 75% of farmland is devoted to monoculture grain and fodder for animal feed.” “Only 25% of the cultivated land is used for farming. human feeding“whose destination “is not to satisfy local food needs” but rather they are marketed to other countries. Regarding livestock, he remarked that “we have more pigs than inhabitants and their meat is mainly for export”. “Meanwhile, in the most sustainable productions, such as sheep, the number of heads has halved in the last twenty years”, he highlighted.
“This model of industrial and intensive food production is highly dependent on fossil fuels throughout the chain, as well as chemical fertilizers and pesticides,” said the platform, which has warned of “the growing water pollution by nitrates in Navarra”. Despite the “clamorous increase in risks”, he criticized the fact that “new farms and biomethanation centers for organic industrial waste continue to be authorized”.
Faced with this, it has opted for “regulate markets and prices and reorganize the entire food system in an integral way, adapting our way of eating to the resources we have in our territory”. He has also called for “planning our productive sector with a focus on food sovereignty to meet the food needs of our population” and a “decided transition towards a more sustainable model based on agroecology, crop diversification and de-intensification, carrying out extensive farming linked to the land”.
Source: Eitb
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