Spain is the fifth world exporter of meat and the country that sells the most pork abroad

The words of the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, about Spanish livestock and the "pollution" and "poor quality" of macro-farms have generated a general malaise in this industry due to the image that it can convey of a sector that has a great weight in exports: Spain is the fifth largest exporter in the world and sales outside Spain reached a value of more than 7,000 million euros last year. It is not the first time that the sector feels attacked by Garzón, who already asked Spaniards last July to reduce their meat consumption, citing the health and environmental sustainability problems that it entails. Now, in an interview published last week in the British newspaper The Guardian, he has affirmed that the macro-farms "pollute the soil, pollute the water and export low-quality meat from abused animals." The issue of meat consumption and production is not a trivial issue in a Spain that is immersed in the process of adaptation to climate change, but in which the sector has ...