"We demonstrated to the Europeans that we do not need to cut down trees to produce meat," said Georges Breitschmitt.

At Anuga, customers are retained, new ones are met, some business deals are closed, and commercial politics are also made. Executives from the Institute for the Promotion of Argentine Vaccinated Meat (IPCVA), from the various business chambers of the industry, and national authorities, met with their counterparts from the European Union and, in a one-on-one meeting, discussed the regulation that requires their importers to certify that the food comes from fields that have not been deforested in recent years. The private sector was accompanied by the Argentine ambassador to Germany, Betina Pasquali de Fonseca; the agricultural attaché in Brussels, Gastón Funes; and the Undersecretary of Markets of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Agustín Tejeda. At the end of the meeting, the head of the IPCVA, Georges Breitschmitt, said: "In the first two days we had meetings and presentations with importers, and today Argentine and European authorities joined us. We are taking advantage of the ...