The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Gerardo Dueñas, stated this Wednesday that the consumption of beef is threatened by certain political positions. “They are demonizing a sector with a great future,” he warned, adding that “it is closely linked to the territory.” The counselor refers in this sense to “some instances of the Government of Spain” and referred, in particular, to the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, as responsible for this trend in public opinion.
Gerardo Dueñas has made these considerations during the inauguration of the 1st International Beef Congress, which is being held until Thursday at the Hospedería del Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca in Salamanca, a province, “with an environmental landscape such as the dehesa” and with “conditions of breeding of suckler cows in extensive and semi-extensive” which, according to the counselor, “have nothing to do with many of the criteria that the Ministry is proposing,” reports Ical
In contrast, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development evidences the commitment of the Junta de Castilla y León that the sector continues “functioning and growing” through “innovation, medicine and certain scientific instances” as methods to combat “that negativity in consumption”, thus making it “clear” that beef “is part of the Mediterranean diet and is a quality product to continue consuming”.
