The Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, once again provokes the wrath of the agricultural and livestock sector. Months after he launched a campaign against the consumption of meat, the political leader has assured in an interview in ‘The Guardian’ that “Spain exports poor quality meat from mistreated animals.”
The statements have caused a cascade of resignation requests from agricultural organizations, opposition and Autonomous Communities with a significant weight of the meat sector.
The Agrarian Association of Young Farmers (Asaja) has called for Garzón’s resignation, in the face of what it considers to be yet another chapter of the minister’s “sectarian attitude”, while at the same time claiming not to understand how the Presidency of the Government can maintain a Ministry that is “continually attacking an important sector such as farming, and therefore the interests of Spain”.
Asaja has asked the President of the Government that if the resignation does not take place, he dismiss Minister Garzón “immediately” to “avoid greater evils”, since the primary sector “needs support and not demonization or continuous attacks” from the Government.
Asaja thus joins the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) that has also asked the Minister of Consumption to “rectify or resign” for his “irresponsible and directly false statements.”
The outrage also came from the opposition. The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, demanded “responsibilities and rectification” from the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón. Ciudadanos registered a non-law proposal in Congress with which it seeks to have the Lower House disapprove of the minister.
Communities such as Castilla y León, Madrid, Andalucía or Murcia have also come out in defense of the livestock sector and have demanded a rectification from the minister.
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